> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://tyk.io/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Patch API in Tyk OAS format.

> You can use this endpoint to update Tyk OAS part of the Tyk API definition.
This endpoint allows you to configure Tyk OAS extension based on query params provided(similar to import).



## OpenAPI

````yaml /swagger/5.12/gateway-swagger.yml patch /tyk/apis/oas/{apiID}
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  contact:
    email: support@tyk.io
    name: Tyk Technologies
    url: https://tyk.io/contact
  description: >+
    <img src="https://tyk.io/docs/img/swagger_gateway_image.png" width="963"
    height="250">

    <img src="https://tyk.io/docs/img/swagger_gateway_direction_image.png"
    width="946" height="392">


    The Tyk Gateway API is the primary means for integrating your application
    with the Tyk API Gateway system. This API is very small, and has no granular
    permissions system. It is intended to be used purely for internal automation
    and integration.


    **Warning: Under no circumstances should outside parties be granted access
    to this API.**


    The Tyk Gateway API is capable of:


    * Managing session objects (key generation).

    * Managing and listing policies.

    * Managing and listing API Definitions (only when not using the Tyk
    Dashboard).

    * Hot reloads / reloading a cluster configuration.

    * OAuth client creation (only when not using the Tyk Dashboard).


    In order to use the Gateway API, you'll need to set the **secret** parameter
    in your tyk.conf file.


    The shared secret you set should then be sent along as a header with each
    Gateway API Request in order for it to be successful:


    **x-tyk-authorization: <your-secret>***

    <br/>


    <b>The Tyk Gateway API is subsumed by the Tyk Dashboard API in Pro
    installations.</b>

  license:
    name: Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
    url: https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk/blob/master/LICENSE.md
  title: Tyk Gateway API
  version: 5.11.0
servers:
  - url: https://{tenant}
    variables:
      tenant:
        default: localhost:8080
        description: Your gateway host
security:
  - api_key: []
tags:
  - description: >
      **Note: Applies only to Tyk Gateway Community Edition** <br/>


      API management is very simple using the Tyk Rest API: each update only
      affects the underlying file, and this endpoint will only work with disk
      based installations, not database-backed ones.<br/>


      APIs that are added this way are flushed to to disk into the app_path
      folder using the format: *{api-id}.json*. Updating existing APIs that use
      a different naming convention will cause those APIs to be added, which
      could subsequently lead to a loading error and crash if they use the same
      listen_path. <br/>


      These methods only work on a single API node. If updating a cluster, it is
      important to ensure that all nodes are updated before initiating a
      reload.<br/>
    name: APIs
  - description: |+
      **Note: Applies only to Tyk Gateway Community Edition** <br/>

    name: Tyk OAS APIs
  - description: >
      All keys that are used to access services via Tyk correspond to a session
      object that informs Tyk about the context of this particular token, like
      access rules and rate/quota allowance.
    name: Keys
  - description: >
      It is possible to force API quota and rate limit across all keys that
      belong to a specific organisation ID. Rate limiting at an organisation
      level is useful for creating tiered access levels and trial accounts.<br
      />


      The Organisation rate limiting middleware works with both Quotas and Rate
      Limiters. In order to manage this functionality, a simple API has been put
      in place to manage these sessions. <br />


      Although the Organisation session-limiter uses the same session object,
      all other security keys are optional as they are not used. <br />


      <h3>Managing active status</h3> <br />


      To disallow access to an entire group of keys without rate limiting the
      organisation, create a session object with the "is_inactive" key set to
      true. This will block access before any other middleware is executed. It
      is useful when managing subscriptions for an organisation group and access
      needs to be blocked because of non-payment. <br />
    name: Organisation Quotas
  - description: >
      Sometimes a cache might contain stale data, or it may just need to be
      cleared because of an invalid configuration. This call will purge all keys
      associated with a cache on an API-by-API basis.
    name: Cache Invalidation
  - description: >-
      Use the endpoints under this tag to manage your certificates. You can add,
      delete and list certificates using these endpoints.
    name: Certs
  - description: |
      Force restart of the Gateway or whole cluster.
    name: Hot Reload
  - description: |
      Check health status of the Tyk Gateway and loaded APIs.
    name: Health Checking
  - description: >
      A Tyk security policy incorporates several security options that can be
      applied to an API key. It acts as a template that can override individual
      sections of an API key (or identity) in Tyk.
    name: Policies
  - description: |
      Manage OAuth clients, and manage their tokens
    name: OAuth
  - description: >
      Tyk supports batch requests, so a client makes a single request to the API
      but gets a compound response object back.


      This is especially handy if clients have complex requests that have
      multiple synchronous dependencies and do not wish to have the entire
      request / response cycle running for each event.


      To enable batch request support, set the `enable_batch_request_support`
      value to `true`


      Batch requests that come into Tyk are *run through the whole Tyk
      machinery* and *use a relative path to prevent spamming*. This means that
      a batch request to Tyk for three resources with the same API key will have
      three requests applied to their session quota and request limiting could
      become active if they are being throttled.


      Tyk reconstructs the API request based on the data in the batch request.
      This is to ensure that Tyk is not being used to proxy requests to other
      hosts outside of the upstream API being accessed.


      Batch requests are created by POSTING to the `/{listen_path}/tyk/batch/`
      endpoint. These requests **do not require a valid key**, but their request
      list does.


      <h3>Sample Request</h3>

          ```{json}
          {
            "requests": [
              {
                "method": "GET",
                "headers": {
                  "x-tyk-test": "1",
                  "x-tyk-version": "1.2",
                  "authorization": "1dbc83b9c431649d7698faa9797e2900f"
                },
                "body": "",
                "relative_url": "get"
            },
            {
              "method": "GET",
              "headers": {
                "x-tyk-test": "2",
                "x-tyk-version": "1.2",
                "authorization": "1dbc83b9c431649d7698faa9797e2900f"
              },
              "body": "",
              "relative_url": "get"
              }
            ],
            "suppress_parallel_execution": false
          }
          ```

      The response will be a structured reply that encapsulates the responses
      for each of the outbound requests. If `suppress_parallel_execution` is set
      to `true`, requests will be made synchronously. If set to `false` then
      they will run in parallel and the response order is not guaranteed.


      <h3>Sample Response</h3>

        ```
        [
          {
            "relative_url": "get",
            "code": 200,
            "headers": {
              "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials": [
                "true"
              ],
              "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": [
                "*"
              ],
              "Content-Length": [
                "497"
              ],
              "Content-Type": [
                "application/json"
              ],
              "Date": [
                "Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:32:43 GMT"
              ],
              "Server": [
                "gunicorn/18.0"
              ],
              "Via": [
                "1.1 vegur"
              ]
            },
            "body": "{
          "args": {},
          "headers": {
            "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
            "Authorization": "1dbc83b9c431649d7698faa9797e2900f",
            "Connect-Time": "2",
            "Connection": "close",
            "Host": "httpbin.org",
            "Total-Route-Time": "0",
            "User-Agent": "Go 1.1 package http",
            "Via": "1.1 vegur",
            "X-Request-Id": "6a22499a-2776-4aa1-80c0-686581a8be4d",
            "X-Tyk-Test": "2",
            "X-Tyk-Version": "1.2"
          },
          "origin": "127.0.0.1, 62.232.114.250",
          "url": "http://httpbin.org/get"
        }"
            },
            {
              "relative_url": "get",
              "code": 200,
              "headers": {
                "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials": [
                  "true"
                ],
                "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": [
                  "*"
                ],
                "Content-Length": [
                  "497"
                ],
                "Content-Type": [
                  "application/json"
                ],
                "Date": [
                  "Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:32:43 GMT"
                ],
                "Server": [
                  "gunicorn/18.0"
                ],
                "Via": [
                  "1.1 vegur"
                ]
              },
              "body": "{
          "args": {},
          "headers": {
            "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
            "Authorization": "1dbc83b9c431649d7698faa9797e2900f",
            "Connect-Time": "7",
            "Connection": "close",
            "Host": "httpbin.org",
            "Total-Route-Time": "0",
            "User-Agent": "Go 1.1 package http",
            "Via": "1.1 vegur",
            "X-Request-Id": "1ab61f50-51ff-4828-a7e2-17240385a6d2",
            "X-Tyk-Test": "1",
            "X-Tyk-Version": "1.2"
          },
          "origin": "127.0.0.1, 62.232.114.250",
          "url": "http://httpbin.org/get"
        }"
            }
        ]
        ```
      With the body for each request string encoded in the `body` field.


      * `expire_analytics_after`: If you are running a busy API, you may want to
      ensure that your MongoDB database does not overflow with old data. Set the
      `expire_analytics_after` value to the number of seconds you would like the
      data to last for. Setting this flag to anything above `0` will set an
      `expireAt` field for each record that is written to the database.


      **Important:** Tyk will not create the expiry index for you. In order to
      implement data expiry for your analytics data, ensure that the index is
      created This is easily achieved using the [MongoDB command line
      interface](https://docs.mongodb.com/getting-started/shell/client/).


      * `dont_set_quota_on_create`: This setting defaults to `false`, but if set
      to `true`, when the API is used to edit, create or add keys, the quota
      cache in Redis will not be re-set. By default, all updates or creates to
      Keys that have Quotas set will re-set the quota (This has been the default
      behaviour since 1.0).

        This behaviour can be bypassed on a case-by-case basis by using the `suppress_reset` parameter when making a REST API request. This is the advised mode of operation as it allows for manual, granular control over key quotas and reset timings.

      * `cache_options`: This section enables you to configure the caching
      behaviour of Tyk and to enable or disable the caching middleware for your
      API.


      * `cache_options.enable_cache`: Set this value to `true` if the cache
      should be enabled for this endpoint, setting it to false will stop all
      caching behaviour.


      * `cache_options.cache_timeout`: The amount of time, in seconds, to keep
      cached objects, defaults to `60` seconds.


      * `cache_options.cache_all_safe_requests`: Set this to `true` if you want
      all *safe* requests (GET, HEAD, OPTIONS) to be cached. This is a blanket
      setting for APIs where caching is required but you don't want to set
      individual paths up in the definition.


      * `cache_options.enable_upstream_cache_control`: Set this to `true` if you
      want your application to control the cache options for Tyk (TTL and
      whether to cache or not). See
      [Caching](/docs/basic-config-and-security/reduce-latency/caching/) for
      more details.


      * `response_processors`: Response processors need to be specifically
      defined so they are loaded on API creation, otherwise the middleware will
      not fire. In order to have the two main response middleware components
      fire, the following configuration object should be supplied.


      ```{json}
        "response_processors": [
          {
              "name": "header_injector",
              "options": {
                  "add_headers": {"name": "value"},
                  "remove_headers": ["name"]
              }
          },
          {
            "name": "response_body_transform",
            "options": {}
          }
        ]
      ```


      The options for the `header_injector` are global, and will apply to all
      outbound requests.
    name: Batch requests
paths:
  /tyk/apis/oas/{apiID}:
    patch:
      tags:
        - Tyk OAS APIs
      summary: Patch API in Tyk OAS format.
      description: >-
        You can use this endpoint to update Tyk OAS part of the Tyk API
        definition.

        This endpoint allows you to configure Tyk OAS extension based on query
        params provided(similar to import).
      operationId: patchApiOAS
      parameters:
        - description: ID of the API you want to fetch.
          example: 4c1c0d8fc885401053ddac4e39ef676b
          in: path
          name: apiID
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/UpstreamURL'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ListenPath'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CustomDomain'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AllowList'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ValidateRequest'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/MockResponse'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Authentication'
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            example:
              components:
                securitySchemes:
                  bearerAuth:
                    description: The API Access Credentials
                    scheme: bearer
                    type: http
              info:
                description: This is a sample OAS.
                title: OAS Sample
                version: 1.0.0
              openapi: 3.0.3
              paths:
                /api/sample/users:
                  get:
                    operationId: getUsers
                    responses:
                      '200':
                        content:
                          application/json:
                            schema:
                              items:
                                properties:
                                  name:
                                    type: string
                                type: object
                              type: array
                        description: fetched users
                    summary: Get users
                    tags:
                      - users
              security:
                - bearerAuth: []
              servers:
                - url: https://localhost:8080
              x-tyk-api-gateway:
                info:
                  name: user
                  state:
                    active: true
                server:
                  listenPath:
                    strip: true
                    value: /user-test/
                upstream:
                  url: https://localhost:8080
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/OpenAPI3Schema'
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiModifyKeySuccess'
          description: API patched.
        '400':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                message: Must specify an apiID to patch
                status: error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiStatusMessage'
          description: Bad Request
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                message: Attempted administrative access with invalid or missing key!
                status: error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiStatusMessage'
          description: Forbidden
        '404':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                message: API not found
                status: error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiStatusMessage'
          description: API not found.
        '500':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                message: file object creation failed, write error
                status: error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiStatusMessage'
          description: Internal server error.
components:
  parameters:
    UpstreamURL:
      description: Upstream URL for the API
      example: https://localhost:8080
      in: query
      name: upstreamURL
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
    ListenPath:
      description: Listen path for the API
      example: /user-test/
      in: query
      name: listenPath
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
    CustomDomain:
      description: Custom domain for the API
      example: tyk.io
      in: query
      name: customDomain
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
    AllowList:
      description: Enable allowList middleware for all endpoints
      in: query
      name: allowList
      required: false
      schema:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/BooleanQueryParam'
    ValidateRequest:
      description: >-
        Enable validateRequest middleware for all endpoints having a request
        body with media type application/json
      in: query
      name: validateRequest
      required: false
      schema:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/BooleanQueryParam'
    MockResponse:
      description: >-
        Enable mockResponse middleware for all endpoints having responses
        configured.
      in: query
      name: mockResponse
      required: false
      schema:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/BooleanQueryParam'
    Authentication:
      description: >-
        Enable/disable the authentication mechanism in your Tyk Gateway for your
        OAS API
      in: query
      name: authentication
      schema:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/BooleanQueryParam'
  schemas:
    OpenAPI3Schema:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: true
    ApiModifyKeySuccess:
      properties:
        action:
          example: modified
          type: string
        key:
          example: b13d928b9972bd18
          type: string
        key_hash:
          type: string
        status:
          example: ok
          type: string
      type: object
    ApiStatusMessage:
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
        status:
          type: string
      type: object
    BooleanQueryParam:
      example: true
      type: boolean
  securitySchemes:
    api_key:
      description: Api key
      in: header
      name: X-Tyk-Authorization
      type: apiKey

````