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Documentation for btTypes
John_Morris
Member Posts: 5 ✭
I'm looking for documentation on the various btTypes asked for by the Onshape API. Many of the API guides (such as here and here) are explicit that a given feature requires a specific btType, but the only help I've seen in learning the specific types is to make a feature, and then get a list of features from the API (recommended here and here). This seems slow and difficult to me. Can anyone point out a source describing what each btType is?
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Konst_Sh
Member Posts: 54 PRO
the openapi endpoint can return you a schema, it is pretty much the most comprehensive source of api info. If you lucky enough you can try to generate from it the api client for the framework of your choice. Or at least generate api response class library. I was only able to do it with partial success using this online tool:
It was usable after some manual cleanup and had the polymorphic json attributes based on extracted btType discriminators
https://cad.onshape.com/glassworks/explorer/#/OpenApi/getOpenApi
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the openapi endpoint can return you a schema, it is pretty much the most comprehensive source of api info. If you lucky enough you can try to generate from it the api client for the framework of your choice. Or at least generate api response class library. I was only able to do it with partial success using this online tool: https://editor.swagger.io/
It was usable after some manual cleanup and had the polymorphic json attributes based on extracted btType discriminators
https://cad.onshape.com/glassworks/explorer/#/OpenApi/getOpenApi
Thanks Konst_Sh, your answer led me to find the schema, so I'll mark it as correct. Just for clarity though, the endpoint is <https://cad.onshape.com/api/openapi>, and the schema is also on glassworks (but unexpanded and at the bottom of the page, I had completely missed it!).