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title: API naming guidelines
description: The API name must follow the following guidelines:
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# API naming guidelines

The API name must follow the following guidelines:

* The name should not have the word "model".

* The name should not have the word "threshold".

* The name should not have the word "all".

* The name should not have the word "decoyall".

The following is the list of allowed characters in API name:

* The maximum characters in API name can be 160

* \- (hyphen), \_ (underscore), and white space are allowed in the name

* a-z, A-Z, and 0-9

* The first character must be alphanumeric