mjson

Interface Json.Schema

Enclosing class:

Json

public static interface Json.Schema

Represents JSON schema - a specific data format that a JSON entity must follow. The idea of a JSON schema is very similar to XML. Its main purpose is validating input.

More information about the various JSON schema specifications can be found at http://json-schema.org. JSON Schema is an IETF draft (v4 currently) and our implementation follows this set of specifications. A JSON schema is specified as a JSON object that contains keywords defined by the specification. Here are a few introductory materials:

• http://jsonary.com/documentation/json-schema/ - a very well-written tutorial covering the whole standard
• http://spacetelescope.github.io/understanding-json-schema/ - online book, tutorial (Python/Ruby based)

Author:

Borislav Iordanov

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Json	toJson() Return the JSON representation of the schema.
Json	validate(Json document) Validate a JSON document according to this schema.

Method Detail

validate

Json validate(Json document)

Validate a JSON document according to this schema. The validations attempts to proceed even in the face of errors. The return value is always a Json.object containing the boolean property ok. When ok is true, the return object contains nothing else. When it is false, the return object contains a property errors which is an array of error messages for all detected schema violations.

Parameters:

document - The input document.

Returns:

{"ok":true} or {"ok":false, errors:["msg1", "msg2", ...]}

toJson

Json toJson()

Return the JSON representation of the schema.