Re: [PATCH] Updated JSON Schema, pk_mi_val_to_json, pk_mi_json_to_val and a test file

[Konstantinos Chasialis]

> Hmm, it is a pity that functionality is not available in json-c itself:
> as far as I can see this jsonschema-c library is not packaged in Debian
> or any other major distro.  It has also been untouched since 2015.
>
> On the bright side, it is small and distributed under the MIT license,
> so I think we could incorporate it to poke's sources if we wanted to.
>
> Have you tried it?  Does it actually work well enough so we could lift
> many/most/all of the integrity checks from the msg<->json conversion
> routines given an schema has been applied and the data is ok?
>

I haven't tried it to be honest, but I will.
Also, I can read the code and see if we can adapt it to our project
without much effort.

>
> How so?  Is it not popular/widely used?
> In that case we may want to use a different method to formalize the
> structure of our JSON objects...

Yes, I am also wondering the same.
I have sent an email to the developers of libjson-c asking if they somehow
offer this functionality, or they happen to know any good alternatives.