What is the x-apim-inline property added to definitions when importing OpenAPI spec?

Question

When importing a simple OpenAPI spec into an APIM API, it is adding the x-apim-inline property with the value true to most of the imported Definitions.

It is even creating definitions to basics types such as string or integer in order to add this x-apim-inline property. That creates dozen of what seems to be useless definition. Eg:

{
    "type": "string",
    "x-apim-inline": true
}

What does that mean? What can I do to avoid it?

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

@Benjamin Talmard Thanks for your patience! I had a discussion internally and confirmed that this is by design, The x-apim-inline property is added by APIM to indicate that it did not generate a separate schema reference and instead "inlined" it into the object.

do let me know incase of further queries, I would be happy to assist you.