keyword "required" not used like documented in latest json schema

[nicolasfranck]

According to the latest specification of JSON-Schema, one can require the existance of some keys like this:

{
        "title": "Example Schema",
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
                "firstName": {
                        "type": "string"
                },
                "lastName": {
                        "type": "string"
                },
                "age": {
                        "description": "Age in years",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "minimum": 0
                }
        },
        "required": ["firstName", "lastName"]
}

But this "required" is not supported in your module in this way. Your module does it like this:

..
"lastName": {
   "type": "string",
   "required": 1
}
..

Cf. http://json-schema.org/examples.html

Are you using an older version of the specification? Doesn't matter if it is older. But I just need to know what version is supported, so I can document it.

It seems like you're using draft-03:

http://json-schema.org/draft-03/schema

where "required" is a boolean, and applies to the object being described, instead of

http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema

where "required" is an array, that lists the required properties for the object being described.

Thanks in advance

[Relequestual]

The module currently only supports draft 3.

[nicolasfranck]

Thanks!

[Relequestual]

I'm hoping to complete draft 3 support (some parts are missing), and then update it to draft 4. It seems like the original developer has vanished. Luckily I've been eyeing this project up for some time, and managed to get added as a maintainer on PAUSE before he vanished.

[nicolasfranck]

Ah! I'm happy someone has the guts to proceed on this project. Thanks!

[Relequestual]

Can't make any promise on timescale... learning how distributions work with cpan...

[nicolasfranck]

milla can help you out:

http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Dist-Milla-v1.0.15/lib/Dist/Milla/Tutorial.pod

[Relequestual]

Thanks. It's been suggested I use dzil, but this potentially looks preferable as a layer ontop of crazy.

[nicolasfranck]

It uses Dist::Zilla under the hood, but makes a lot of preassumptions to make things more easily, and keep configuration to an absolute minimum.