Standards Used by Tiled

Tiled leverages the following standards from the web and from scientific computing.

• OpenAPI to describe its HTTP API

• ASGI to interoperate with asynchronous Python web components

• Content negotiation to determine what format and what if any compression encoding to use

• MIME types to describe formats

• Cache Control directives to manage caching resources

• OAuth2 Password Flow, OpenID Connect with OAuth2 Code Flow, and/or SAML for authentication

• OAuth2 refresh flow with JWTs

• Prometheus metrics for server observability

• Apache Arrow to describe tabular data

• The Numpy Array Interface to describe N-dimensional strided array data

• JSON Schema to describe the HTTP API (via OpenAPI) and to document and validate server- and client-side configuration files