eCFR · Schema

CfrAncestor

An ancestor node in the CFR hierarchy as returned by GET /api/versioner/v1/ancestry/{date}/title-{title}.json.

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Properties

Name Type Description
type string The type of this hierarchy node.
label string Full human-readable label for this node (e.g., 'Title 2 - Federal Financial Assistance').
label_level string Short level label (e.g., 'Title 2', 'Part 200').
label_description string Descriptive portion of the label (e.g., 'Federal Financial Assistance').
reserved boolean Whether this node is reserved.
identifier string Identifier for this node within its type (e.g., '2', 'A', 'I', '200').
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JSON Schema

cfr-ancestor.json Raw ↑ 
{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ecfr/main/json-schema/cfr-ancestor.json",
  "title": "CfrAncestor",
  "description": "An ancestor node in the CFR hierarchy as returned by GET /api/versioner/v1/ancestry/{date}/title-{title}.json.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The type of this hierarchy node.",
      "enum": ["title", "subtitle", "chapter", "subchapter", "part", "subpart", "subject_group", "section", "appendix"]
    },
    "label": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Full human-readable label for this node (e.g., 'Title 2 - Federal Financial Assistance')."
    },
    "label_level": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Short level label (e.g., 'Title 2', 'Part 200')."
    },
    "label_description": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Descriptive portion of the label (e.g., 'Federal Financial Assistance')."
    },
    "reserved": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether this node is reserved."
    },
    "identifier": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Identifier for this node within its type (e.g., '2', 'A', 'I', '200')."
    }
  },
  "required": ["type", "label", "identifier"]
}