How to create flat json scheme if it has #ref?

[larisa-pozhilova]

Hey,

I might have put it in a different issue tracker, apologies if so.

My problem is that I have a json schema, which has #ref in it with a relative paths. The whole thing is located at GitHub and should stay there.

What I want is to validate a json-string against the schema, but, as far as I understood, I need to create a flat json scheme with resolved #ref elements. Is there any way to do it?

Please, help me with this issue. It'd help me and my project tremendously!

Thanks, Laura.

[javadev686]

i am putting a sample here. Hope this will help you.

{ "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#", "type": "object", "properties": { "name": { "$ref": "#/definitions/d_NonZeroLengthString" } }, "definitions": { "d_NonZeroLengthString": { "description": "Non Zero Length String", "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } } }

[larisa-pozhilova]

Hey, thank you for the reply.

I might have been not clear enough, but I already have the whole structure of the JSON schema files.

What I need is to make a flat JSON schema file out of several JSON schemas, one of them has others as #ref.

What I'm asking about is how to do it using this library if it is possible at all?

Thanks, Laura.

[javadev686]

Hey Laura,

Below two are equivalent, in which first one has "ref" and second one does not

--------1st------------- { "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#", "type": "object", "properties": { "name": { "$ref": "#/definitions/d_NonZeroLengthString" } }, "definitions": { "d_NonZeroLengthString": { "description": "Non Zero Length String", "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } } }

---------2nd----equivalent to 1st------------------ { "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#", "type": "object", "properties": { "name": { "description": "Non Zero Length String", "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } } }

so probably you have to replace "ref" with their corresponding content in the sequence they have been called/used.

Hope it helps you.

Thanks

[larisa-pozhilova]

Again, my question is not about creating JSON schema manually. I have the whole folder of JSON schemas.

What I need is to validate the response agains the JSON schema, which has #ref inside it. So the validation is failing at the moment. I figured that I need to make my schema flat in my java app. How to do it programmatically?

Thanks, Laura.

[aschrijver]

There is mention of a schema inlining feature in #116 by @fge in the next major release. Maybe this is what you refer to?

I too am looking for such feature. Programmatically you could load the schema in a JsonNode, inline contents of external schemas and replace the $refs that you find. (Don't know best way to get to the referenced schema's that are loaded by the validator, yet).

[larisa-pozhilova]

@aschrijver Thank you a lot for the answer! It looks like something I was looking for.

[gustavodegeus]

Someone found a good solution? I'd like to load a flat schema too...