Purge methods: Response message

This rule enforces that all Purge RPCs return a long-running operation that resolves to a response with a corresponding name, as mandated in AIP-165.

Details

This rule looks at any message beginning with Purge, and complains if the response is not a long-running operation that resolves to a response matching the name of the method with a Response suffix.

Examples

Incorrect code for this rule:

// Incorrect.
// Should be `google.longrunning.Operation`.
rpc PurgeBooks(PurgeBooksRequest) returns (PurgeBooksResponse) {
  option (google.api.http) = {
    post: "/v1/{parent=publishers/*}/books:purge"
    body: "*"
  };
}

Incorrect code for this rule:

// Incorrect.
rpc PurgeBooks(PurgeBooksRequest) returns (google.longrunning.Operation) {
  option (google.api.http) = {
    post: "/v1/{parent=publishers/*}/books:purge"
    body: "*"
  };
  option (google.longrunning.operation_info) = {
    // Should be "PurgeBooksResponse".
    response_type: "Book"
    metadata_type: "PurgeBooksMetadata"
  };
}

Correct code for this rule:

// Correct.
rpc PurgeBooks(PurgeBooksRequest) returns (google.longrunning.Operation) {
  option (google.api.http) = {
    post: "/v1/{parent=publishers/*}/books:purge"
    body: "*"
  };
  option (google.longrunning.operation_info) = {
    response_type: "PurgeBooksResponse"
    metadata_type: "PurgeBooksMetadata"
  };
}

Disabling

If you need to violate this rule, use a leading comment above the method. Remember to also include an aip.dev/not-precedent comment explaining why.

// (-- api-linter: core::0165::response-message-name=disabled
//     aip.dev/not-precedent: We need to do this because reasons. --)
rpc PurgeBooks(PurgeBooksRequest) returns (PurgeBooksResponse) {
  option (google.api.http) = {
    post: "/v1/{parent=publishers/*}/books:purge"
    body: "*"
  };
}

If you need to violate this rule for an entire file, place the comment at the top of the file.