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If you want Fern to skip reading any endpoints, schemas, properties, or parameters, use the x-fern-ignore extension.

Ignore an endpoint

To skip an endpoint, add x-fern-ignore: true at the operation level.

x-fern-ignore at operation level in openapi.yml
1paths:
2 /users:
3 get:
4 x-fern-ignore: true
5 ...

Ignore a schema

To skip a schema, add x-fern-ignore: true at the schema level.

x-fern-ignore at schema level in openapi.yml
1components:
2 schemas:
3 SchemaToSkip:
4 x-fern-ignore: true
5 ...

Ignore a property

To skip a property within a schema, add x-fern-ignore: true at the property level.

x-fern-ignore at property level in openapi.yml
1components:
2 schemas:
3 User:
4 type: object
5 properties:
6 name:
7 type: string
8 internalField:
9 x-fern-ignore: true
10 type: string

Ignore a parameter

To skip a parameter, add x-fern-ignore: true at the parameter level.

x-fern-ignore at parameter level in openapi.yml
1paths:
2 /users:
3 get:
4 parameters:
5 - name: internalParam
6 in: query
7 x-fern-ignore: true
8 schema:
9 type: string

To skip a parameter without modifying your base spec, use null values in your overrides file to delete parameters:

overrides.yml
1paths:
2 /users:
3 get:
4 parameters:
5 - null # Deletes the first parameter from base spec