Usage of $ref in validation

[gurpiarbassi]

Here is my schema:

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "order_id": {
      "$ref": "resource:/schema/definitions.json"
    },
    "status": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "value": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "ACCEPTED",
            "REJECTED",
            "COLLECTED",
            "SETTLED",
            "SETTLEMENT_FAILURE",
            "NOTIFICATION_ERROR"
          ]
        },
        "date_time": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Status change date in ISO8601 format with offset"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "value",
        "date_time"
      ]
    }
  },
  "allOf": [
    {
      "required": [
        "order_id",
        "status"
      ]
    },
    {
      "$ref": "resource:/schema/definitions.json#/definitions/order_id"
    }
  ]
}

And my definitions.json

{
  "definitions": {
    "order_id": {
      "type": "array",
      "minItems": 1,
      "items": [
        {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "id",
            "scope"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "scope": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "WEB",
                "OMS",
                "STORE"
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

This is the payload I am trying to validate:

{
  "order_id" : [ {
    "id" : "1",
    "scope" : "OMS"
  }, {
    "id" : "2",
    "scope" : "WEB"
  } ],
  "status" : {
    "value" : "ACCEPTED",
    "date_time" : "2019-08-12T15:15:39+00:00"
  }
}

The result I get is:

"domain" : "validation",
  "keyword" : "allOf",
  "message" : "instance failed to match all required schemas (matched only 1 out of 2)",
  "matched" : 1,
  "nrSchemas" : 2,
  "reports" : {
    "/allOf/0" : [ ],
    "/allOf/1" : [ {
      "level" : "error",
      "schema" : {
        "loadingURI" : "resource:/schema/definitions.json#",
        "pointer" : "/definitions/order_id"
      },
      "instance" : {
        "pointer" : ""
      },
      "domain" : "validation",
      "keyword" : "type",
      "message" : "instance type (object) does not match any allowed primitive type (allowed: [\"array\"])",
      "found" : "object",
      "expected" : [ "array" ]
    } ]
  }

It fails validation on the $ref.

[GolanSabo]

Hi,
I'm having the same problem.

Please advise.

[kmualem]

We are using this library as well for JSON schema validation and we would like to improve the schema by using the definitions $ref... because the result of not using the $ref is a huge schema which is very hard to maintain.

Can you please share if this issue is going to be fixed soon?
Thanks