Re: [apps-discuss] Announce: JSON Schema, I-D version 4

[Francis Galiegue <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Francis Galiegue <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>
> This means you can easily check the validity of schemas not under your
> direct control, and also detect whether you can actually use such
> schemas (for instance, a schema written for draft v3 will not validate
> against v4 unless it uses keywords which have not changed definitions
> inbetween). And as you can use the same code for both syntax checking
> and instance validation, that leaves less room for errors.
>

And also, it can easily describe other JSON-based formats. For
instance, it took me 10 minutes to write this:

https://github.com/fge/json-schema-validator/blob/master/src/main/resources/json-patch.json

If you receive a patch, you can use JSON Schema to filter out bad
patches before even attempting to patch.

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Francis Galiegue, [e-mail]
Try out your JSON Schemas: http://json-schema-validator.herokuapp.com