Link relations in JSON / JSON Schema

[Stefan Tilkov]

My apologies if this topic has been discussed to death, a quick
archive search didn't turn up what I was looking for: I was wondering
whether there are any efforts of standardizing the "JSON Referencing"
mechanism *independently* from the schema effort. Any pointers would
be appreciated.

[Kris Zyp]

No, there has not such an effort. There have certainly been extensive
discussion in the json-schema google group about JSON Referencing and
it's role in JSON Schema (perhaps with some consideration of a separate
spec). [1] is one, but there have been others. At least from my
perspective, JSON Referencing can be described with JSON Schema, and so
I have not felt the need initiate a distinct standardization effort for
it. It is another JSON structure that with links that can correctly and
accurately expressed with JSON Schema. However, just because it can be
described with JSON Schema doesn't mean it shouldn't have it's own
specification/standardization effort. It could certainly be valuable to
standardize JSON Referencing.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/json-schema/lftABvH5KkA
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/json-schema/lftABvH5KkA>

Thanks,
Kris

[Stefan Tilkov]

On Jan 21, 2011, at 16:01 , Kris Zyp wrote:

> However, just because it can be
> described with JSON Schema doesn't mean it shouldn't have it's own
> specification/standardization effort. It could certainly be valuable to
> standardize JSON Referencing.

Thanks, exactly the information I was looking for.

Best,
Stefan

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[Travis Vachon]

>> However, just because it can be
>> described with JSON Schema doesn't mean it shouldn't have it's own
>> specification/standardization effort. It could certainly be valuable to
>> standardize JSON Referencing.

Just want to kick in an unsolicited +1 here - I, for one, think this
would be very handy. If anyone (especially someone with better REST
chops than mine!) has thoughts on this I'd love to kick them around/
would probably be enthusiastic enough to write some code.

Best,

Travis