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validating-api-responses
Validate API responses against schemas to ensure contract compliance and data integrity. Use when ensuring API response correctness. Trigger with phrases like "validate responses", "check API responses", or "verify response format".
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# Validating API Responses
## Overview
Validate API responses against OpenAPI schemas, JSON Schema definitions, and contract specifications to detect data integrity violations, schema drift, and backward compatibility regressions. Run validation in middleware (development/staging) or as post-deployment contract tests to ensure every response conforms to the documented API contract.
## Prerequisites
- OpenAPI 3.0+ specification with complete response schema definitions for all endpoints
- JSON Schema validator: Ajv (Node.js), jsonschema (Python), or everit-org/json-schema (Java)
- Response validation middleware or test harness integrated into CI pipeline
- API test client for exercising endpoints and capturing response bodies
- Schema diff tool for detecting contract changes between versions
## Instructions