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Abstract - JSON at Work: APIs and Schema #7

Closed tmarrs closed 9 years ago

tmarrs commented 11 years ago

JSON is more than just a simple replacement for XML when you make an AJAX call. All modern languages have excellent JSON API support. You’re already using JSON, and you may be thinking: • What else is there to talk about? • What APIs are available, and why do they matter? • How do I leverage these APIs to improve my applications? • What is JSON Schema and when/how do I use it?

In this presentation, we’ll cover:

JSON APIs • JSON in HTML5 & JavaScript • JSON in Ruby on Rails • JSON in Java

JSON Schema • Schema Overview • Schema in detail • Validation with JavaScript, Ruby, and Java • Documenting your Schema

Attendees will learn how to leverage JSON APIs and JSON Schema to enhance their architecture and development efforts.

matthewmccullough commented 11 years ago

This has me interested and asking questions. Why schemas in JSON? Is that popular? What do the nay-sayers say? Is this XSD all over again?

Just prodding. Very interested.

tmarrs commented 11 years ago

Matthew JSON Schema is absolutely necessary whenever you cross an organizational boundary, whether it's intra-enterprise or inter-enterprise because it validates the semantic meaning of a document: Are all the required elements there? Are the dates in the agreed-upon format? Is the value within an acceptable range (e.g., an enum)? Consider an Order Processing system. Without a schema, you have to sift through and check each data element to see if it's there, if it follows all the rules. With a schema, you feed in the schema and the document, and you're done. Boolean - True/False. Very simple and clean.

Furthermore: OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) suggests that for RESTful services that you restrict data to what's expected. JSON Schema is much simpler than XSD. There are a lot of excellent tools that support it. As you can tell, I'm passionate about this topic, and I could arrange a smack down if you'd like. :-)

Thanks.

Tom

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On Mar 7, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Matthew McCullough notifications@github.com wrote:

This has me interested and asking questions. Why schemas in JSON? Is that popular? What do the nay-sayers say? Is this XSD all over again?

Just prodding. Very interested.

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