java-json-tools/json-schema-core

$ref - relative references - './a.json' != 'a.json' ?

crankydillo opened this issue · 2 comments

crankydillo commented

I'm having the same problem as documented in this swagger issue.

It seems clear that the author wants the $ref URIs to be normalized, so I'm very hesitant to call this a bug.

Mainly, I'm curious if there is justification for this requirement. If normalization is required due to an implementation detail, couldn't the implementation just normalize the URI internally?

huggsboson commented

I'm not sure why the $ref would be normalized. Maybe it was implemented to protect on $schema and $ref was collateral damage.
http://json-schema.org/latest/json-schema-core.html#rfc.section.7

queenaqian commented

I think maybe we could just use the resolved uri. The URI resolver will remove ./ for normalization when we want to ref to local directory. That will cause the schema syntax validation fail.