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kace91
kace91

Reputation: 853

Is there a way to unify a json schema into a single file?

I'm looking for a way to unify two json schemas into one, by inserting one as a field of the other. That is to say, the schema A would have a property that is defined by the content of schema B.

To clarify,I don't want to reference schema A from schema B. I want to directly insert the content of B in a specific point of A so that I can have a single JSON document, but I figure that just "pasting" the content into the property programatically wouldn't be enough.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 928

Answers (2)

awwright
awwright

Reputation: 645

JSON Schema is designed so that you can substitute a reference with its entire contents, and the behavior will be the same, with one possible exception if you use relative URI references.

If you have a schema like "A.json":

{
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "b": {"$ref": "B.json"}
    }
}

And you have "B.json":

{ "type": "string" }

This can be collapsed into the following:

{
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "b": { "type": "string" }
    }
}

There is one case in which the behavior would change, and that's if you use a relative URI reference, and the URI of the document you're substituting into causes that URI Reference to resolve to a full URI differently than it was before. Use a full (absolute) URI in the root of each schema, in these cases.

Upvotes: 1

helloworld
helloworld

Reputation: 59

I dint'get you question but I try to guess (it could be better if you added an example!). So i think that you have two schema like:

{ "schema": "A",
   ........
 }

 {"schema": "B",
   .......
  }

So, you have two chance to unify them: -manually -using a programm

Manually it is trivial because you have to do only copy and paste :

 { "schema": "B",
   ........

  "schema_pasted": "A",
   .......
  }

or you can use some library to work automatically obtaing the same result (for exaple GSON https://github.com/google/gson in Java).

Upvotes: 0

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