{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/carnegie-mellon-university/main/json-schema/carnegie-mellon-university-delphi-epidata-envelope.json",
  "title": "Delphi Epidata response envelope",
  "description": "The response envelope every Delphi Epidata endpoint except /version returns. Errors arrive with HTTP 200 and are signalled only in `result`, so this schema is the contract a client must validate against rather than trusting the status code.",
  "x-provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-19",
    "method": "derived",
    "source": "openapi/carnegie-mellon-university-delphi-epidata-openapi.yml, itself derived from live probes of https://api.delphi.cmu.edu/epidata/ on 2026-08-19",
    "x-operator": "institution",
    "authorship": "Written by API Evangelist. Carnegie Mellon University publishes no JSON Schema for this API."
  },
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["epidata", "result", "message"],
  "properties": {
    "epidata": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Result rows. Shape varies by endpoint; empty on error or no-match.",
      "items": { "type": "object" }
    },
    "result": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Delphi status convention: 1 success, -2 no results, -1 bad/missing parameters. NOT an HTTP status.",
      "enum": [1, -1, -2]
    },
    "message": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "'success', 'no results', or a human-readable parameter error."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "$defs": {
    "FluviewRow": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "One CDC ILINet surveillance record from /fluview/.",
      "properties": {
        "release_date": { "type": "string", "format": "date" },
        "region": { "type": "string" },
        "issue": { "type": "integer", "description": "Epiweek in which this revision was published." },
        "epiweek": { "type": "integer" },
        "lag": { "type": "integer" },
        "num_ili": { "type": "integer" },
        "num_patients": { "type": "integer" },
        "num_providers": { "type": "integer" },
        "wili": { "type": "number" },
        "ili": { "type": "number" }
      },
      "required": ["region", "epiweek", "issue"]
    },
    "CovidcastRow": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "One COVIDcast observation from /covidcast/.",
      "properties": {
        "geo_value": { "type": "string" },
        "signal": { "type": "string" },
        "source": { "type": "string" },
        "geo_type": { "type": "string", "enum": ["county", "hrr", "msa", "dma", "state", "hhs", "nation"] },
        "time_type": { "type": "string", "enum": ["day", "week"] },
        "time_value": { "type": "integer" },
        "issue": { "type": "integer" },
        "lag": { "type": "integer" },
        "value": { "type": "number" },
        "stderr": { "type": ["number", "null"] },
        "sample_size": { "type": ["number", "null"] }
      },
      "required": ["geo_value", "signal", "source", "geo_type", "time_type"]
    }
  }
}