Ask Claude to Generate JSON Schema from Your API Response Structures
JSON Schema is the contract between your API and its consumers. But writing it by hand is tedious and it drifts out of sync with the actual code. Claude reads your response structures and generates schemas that match what the API really returns.
Read the API Resource classes in src/resources/ and generate JSON Schema
definitions for each endpoint's response. Include required fields, types,
enums for status values, and nullable markers.
Claude reads your response transformation code and produces accurate schemas:
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"type": "object",
"required": ["id", "email", "created_at"],
"properties": {
"id": { "type": "integer" },
"email": { "type": "string", "format": "email" },
"name": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
"role": { "type": "string", "enum": ["admin", "user", "guest"] },
"created_at": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" }
}
}
Target different schema needs:
# From TypeScript interfaces
Read the types in src/types/api.ts and generate JSON Schema for each.
Match optional properties to nullable, union types to oneOf.
# From actual responses
Run the API endpoints locally and generate schemas from the real responses.
Include array item schemas and nested object structures.
# For contract testing
Generate JSON Schema for every API endpoint, then write tests that
validate the actual responses match the schema on every test run.
# Keep types in sync
Compare the JSON Schema against the TypeScript types used in the frontend.
Flag any mismatches where the API returns something the frontend doesn't expect.
API contracts that live in code never go stale — let Claude generate schemas from your actual response structures so documentation and validation stay in sync automatically.
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