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Versioning and compatibility
What v1 promises, and how changes reach you without breaking you.
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The public API and these docs are v1. Each service's API lives under /<service>/v1/, and the storefront paths under /api/... are the v1 contract the SDK is built on.
What we never do within v1
- remove an endpoint, a field or an accepted value;
- rename a field or change its type;
- change what a status code or error code means;
- make an optional parameter required.
What we may do within v1
- add endpoints, optional parameters and response fields;
- add new error codes for new situations;
- add values to lists your code should treat as open-ended.
Write a tolerant reader: ignore fields you do not know, and do not depend on the order of keys.
When something must change
A breaking change ships as a new version (v2) beside the old one. The old version keeps working through a published deprecation period, responses carry a Deprecation header that links to the migration guide, and these docs keep every published version readable with a banner pointing to the current one.
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