# Flexible Input

> The degree to which strictly validating every payload rejects the loosely-shaped input a caller might legitimately send.

Record: `lexicon:flexible-input`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Contracts Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/contracts-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-flexible-input

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Write Amplification](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/write-amplification.md) and before [Untyped Payloads](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/untyped-payloads.md).

## Category

- [Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/schema-canonical-data-semantics.md)

## In tension with

- [Schema Validation](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/schema-validation.md)
- [Schema Validation / Flexible Input](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/flexible-input-schema-validation.md)

## Linked from

- [Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-schema-canonical-data-semantics.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)