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MUST

MUST use camel case for property names

Property names MUST use camel-case strings that match this pattern: ^[a-z][a-z0-9]+(?:[A-Z][a-z0-9]+)*$.

Important:

For openapi definitions marked with info.x-api-type: pygeoapi, this rule’s severity is automatically set to warn by the override-severity-pygeoapi rule. See 2.

Name Description
camel case The first letter of the first word MUST begin with a lowercase letter, the first letter of each subsequent word MUST begin with a capital letter and MUST NOT contain any separators between words such as spaces or special characters such as hyphens or underscores.

Invalid Examples

CustomerNumber
Customer_Number
customer-number

Valid Examples

customerNumber
salesOrderNumber
billingAddress

UKHSA Guidelines Property Names


Published: 25 February 2025
Last updated: 25 September 2025
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