# spec-no-required-params-after-optional

Required parameters must appear before any optional parameters in each method's `params` list.

| Open-RPC | Compatibility |
|  --- | --- |
| 1.x | ✅ |


## API design principles

Placing required parameters after optional ones matches common RPC and Open-RPC conventions and avoids ambiguous positional calling patterns.

## Configuration

| Option | Type | Description |
|  --- | --- | --- |
| severity | string | Possible values: `off`, `warn`, `error`. Default `error` (in `recommended` ruleset). |


```yaml
rules:
  spec-no-required-params-after-optional: error
```

## Resources

- [Rule source](https://github.com/Redocly/redocly-cli/blob/main/packages/core/src/rules/openrpc/spec-no-required-params-after-optional.ts)

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