valid-request-content-type-for-form-parameters

Overview

This rule belongs to the swagger-v2-standards-validation ruleset and states that:

Content type of the request for form parameters defined in consumes list can either be application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data or both only.

Property	Value
Enabled	Yes
Maximum Severity	Error
Message	Content type of the HTTP request defined in consumes list for form parameter is invalid.
Code	SWAGGER20STANDARDS_V105
Type	Validation
Rule System	Semantic
Broad Category	Parameters
Products Impacted	API Transformer, Code Generation, Developer Experience Portal
Tags	swagger2 swagger standards semantic validation content type request form parameter consumes

Suggested Fixes

• Ensure that the consumes property of the operation only contains either application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data or both only.
• The content types are compared in a case-sensitive manner.

For More Information

• https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/main/versions/2.0.md#parameter-object
• https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4
• https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/main/versions/2.0.md
• https://docs.apimatic.io/rulesets/overview/