The base configuration system APIs

The base configuration includes the following system APIs:

Name Description Path
Claim API for claims and claim-specific objects /claim/v1
Admin API for administration objects /admin/v1
Test Util

API for testing during development

(Available only when ClaimCenter is started in the ci-test environment)

/test-util/v1
Common API for common InsuranceSuite platform objects like activities and notes /common/v1
API List Dynamically lists the APIs that are available /apis

You can use the API path to view metadata about the API. This is discussed in detail in the following section.

There are also a minimal set of APIs for ContactManager. For more information, refer to the <appURL>/rest/apis endpoint for ContactManager.

Cloud API versions

Note: The following section defines what a minor release is. Minor releases are not expected to have "breaking changes". The types of changes that do and do not fall into the definition of "breaking change" are described in the Schema Backwards Compatibility Contract. To access a copy of this contract, consult your Guidewire representative.

Every version of Cloud API has a version number. For example, suppose that there were four releases of the system APIs in January, April, July, and October of a given year. Each release could have the following version numbers:

  • January: 1.0.0
  • April: 1.1.0
  • July: 1.2.0
  • October: 2.0.0

Minor and major releases

In future releases, system API functionality is expected to change. To define and control these changes, the Cloud API makes use of minor versions and major versions.

  • A minor version is a version of the Cloud API in which functionality is either identical to the previous release or additive.
  • A major version is a version of the Cloud API in which functionality has changed from the previous release.

A given release of the Cloud API can have multiple versions of the APIs, some of which are minor and some of which are major.

Major versions are indicated by the "endpoint path number" in API endpoint paths. This is the number that appears after the "/v". (For example, in /common/v1/activities, the endpoint path number is 1.) When Guidewire makes a change to an API that is not purely additive, the changed API is considered a major release. Its endpoint number is incremented by 1.

When a release of the Cloud API includes a new major release, the previous minor release is also included. The minor release may be identical to the previous release, but it may also have additive changes.

For example, suppose that for the releases from the previous example:

  • The Cloud API in the January release is major version 1.
  • The Cloud API in the April release is identical or additive.
  • The Cloud API in the July release is identical or additive.
  • The Cloud API in the October release includes changes to existing functionality.

In this case, the January, April, and July releases would all include a single version of the APIs whose endpoint included "/v1". The October release would both the "/v1" set of APIs and a new "/v2" set of APIs. This is summarized in the following table.

Release Month Version # Compared to the previous release, this release... Major versions in this release
January 1.​0.​0 ...​is identical or additive /common/v1
April 1.​0.​1 ...​is identical or additive /common/v1
July 1.​0.​2 ...​is identical or additive /common/v1
October 2.​0.​0 ...​includes changes to existing functionality

/common/v1 (identical or additive to July's release) and

/common/v2 (containing the changed functionality)