Data & schema semantics · Naming & aliasing

x-cadl-name

`x-cadl-name` appears on schema objects and properties. Its value is a string. Used by a single provider across 5 OpenAPI documents. Observed values include `string[]`, `Rest.ResourceLocation`, `Record`, `FilteringTag[]`. Consistent with naming & aliasing — this is inferred from where the key appears and what it carries, not from any published definition.

Data & schema semantics derived description
How this description was produced. It is assembled from what was measured in the corpus — where this key appears in a document, what shape its value takes, the values observed, and how many providers use it. It is not taken from a published definition, because for most extensions none exists. Read it as evidence, not as a specification. If you own this extension and want it described properly, tell us.
93 occurrences
5 documents
1 providers
purpose-named

Where it appears

Location in the documentOccurrences
schema 88
tag 5

What its value looks like

Value shapeOccurrences
string93

Observed values

Sampled from the specifications, most frequent first.

string[]Rest.ResourceLocationRecordFilteringTag[]IPAddress[]MonitoredResource[]FrontendSetting[]NameDescriptionObject[]

Providers publishing it

All 1.

microsoft-azure

Why this is not in OpenAPI

Extensions exist because a provider needed something the specification would not carry. Most of what they hold is not the API contract at all — it is operational metadata about the contract: documentation, lifecycle, policy, provenance, and now agents. That metadata is usually better placed alongside the contract, in an Overlay or an APIs.json index, than crammed inside it. See everything else doing the data & schema semantics job.