Need help composing a json-schema definition

[Zhami]

I've got a JSON object that contains "items" that are objects. The
contained objects are "well-formed" in the sense that they have
consistent property names. However, the containing object does not
because it is used as a hash, so that the property names are distinct
names for the contained objects. I can write a json schema for the
contained objects, but don't know how to specify a schema for the
containing object, which effectively has a wildcard-string as the
property name. Can json schema specify such? If I haven't been clear,
please see an pseudo-example object at this gist: https://gist.github.com/1016737

[Joshua Cohen]

Try either patternProperties or additionalProperties.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zyp-json-schema-03#section-5.3

Something like:

{

    "$schema" : "http://example.com/some/other/schema/uri",

    "properties" : {

        "prop1" : {

            "type" : "string"

        },

        "prop2" : {

            "type" : "string"

        }

    }

}

{

    "patternProperties" : {

        "*" : { "$ref" : "http://example.com/some/other/schema/uri" }

    }

}

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