Dynamic links

[andrei....@gmail.com]

Is there any way of making a schema with a variable number of links pointing to a specified schema? ie. addresses points to 0-n address-type instances

or maybe this is too hyper-media like (REST), and it is not in the scope of the hyper-schema ?

[Nate]

I'm not sure it this is close to what you are looking for... 

{

    "description": "JSON-schema for a list of addresses", 

    "type": "array", 

    "items": {

        "$ref": "http://json-schema.org/address"

[Andrei Neculau]

Close but not close enough.

Consider describing the following into a JSON-schema

"links": [{

  "method": "GET",

  "rel":    "address",

  "url":    "url1"

},{

  "method": "GET",

  "rel":    "address",

  "url":    "url2"

},{

  "method": "POST",

  "rel":    "test",

  "url":    "url3"

}]

So can you describe that links is an array, and can have 1 or more "address" links, but only 1 "test" link?

I'm considering extending the schema with a new property "cardinality" that would validate iff the cardinality of the array-item is matched.

[Xample]

there is nothing for the cardinality (but unique which is only restricted to single elements). If you can change your design, I would advise to rewrite your list as an object

{

"address": [{ "method":"GET", "url":"url1"},{ "method":"GET", "url":"url2"}]

"test": [{ "method":"post", "url":"url3"}]

}

Then the schema

{

"properties":

{

"address":{"type":"array"},

"test":{"type":"array", "maxItems":"1"}

}

}