RFC 8927 · EXPERIMENTAL · 2020

JSON Type Definition

Overview

RFC 8927, “JSON Type Definition”, is an Experimental document published in November 2020 by U. Carion. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document proposes a format, called JSON Type Definition (JTD), 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, JTD is intentionally limited to be no more expressive than the type systems of mainstream programming languages. This intentional limitation, as well as the decision to make JTD schemas be JSON documents, makes tooling atop of JTD easier to build.

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

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Experimental” means

Describes a specification that is part of a research or development effort, published so the community can gain experience with it.

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