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Independent Submission                                         U. Carion
Internet-Draft                                                   Segment
Intended status: Experimental                           January 23, 2020
Expires: July 26, 2020

                   JSON Data Definition Format (JDDF)
                         draft-ucarion-jddf-05

Abstract

   This document proposes a format, called JSON Data Definition Format
   (JDDF), for describing the shape of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
   messages.  Its main goals are to enable code generation from schemas
   as well as portable validation with standardized error indicators.
   To this end, JDDF is strategically limited to be no more expressive
   than the type systems of mainstream programming languages.  This
   strategic limitation, as well as the decision to make JDDF schemas be
   JSON documents, also makes tooling atop of JDDF easier to build.

   This document does not have IETF consensus and is presented here to
   facilitate experimentation with the concept of JDDF.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     1.2.  Scope of Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   2.  Syntax  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     2.1.  Extending JDDF's Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
   3.  Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
     3.1.  Allowing Additional Properties  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
     3.2.  Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     3.3.  Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
       3.3.1.  Empty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
       3.3.2.  Ref . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
       3.3.3.  Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
       3.3.4.  Enum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
       3.3.5.  Elements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
       3.3.6.  Properties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
       3.3.7.  Values  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
       3.3.8.  Discriminator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
   4.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   6.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
     6.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
     6.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
   Appendix A.  Other Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
     A.1.  Support for 64-bit Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
     A.2.  Support for Non-Root Schemas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
   Appendix B.  Comparison with CDDL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
   Appendix C.  Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
   Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  44

1.  Introduction

   This document describes a schema language for JSON [RFC8259] called
   JSON Data Definition Format (JDDF).  The name JDDF is chosen to avoid
   confusion with "JSON Schema" from [I-D.handrews-json-schema].

   There exist many options for describing JSON data.  JDDF's niche is