Editor API

The editor API is a lightweight HTTP server that backs the law editor frontend. It serves the compiled frontend and provides REST endpoints for corpus access.

Overview

• Language: Rust (Axum)
• Location: packages/editor-api/
• Port: 8000

What it does

The editor API loads the regulation corpus (from local files or GitHub via the corpus library) and exposes it through a REST API. The editor frontend calls these endpoints to list laws, fetch individual law YAML, and retrieve BDD test scenarios.

Key endpoints

• GET /api/corpus/laws - list all laws in the corpus
• GET /api/corpus/laws/{id} - fetch a specific law's YAML
• GET /api/corpus/laws/{id}/scenarios - fetch BDD scenarios for a law

Configuration

Variable	Default	Purpose
STATIC_DIR	../frontend/dist	Path to compiled frontend
CORPUS_REGISTRY_PATH	corpus-registry.yaml	Registry manifest location
CORPUS_AUTH_FILE	-	Path to authentication config

Running locally

STATIC_DIR=../frontend/dist cargo run -p regelrecht-editor-api

In development, run the frontend dev server separately for hot reload (see Editor).

Further reading

• Editor - the frontend this API backs
• Corpus Library - the library used for law loading