JSON Schema structures for Go

This library provides Go structures to marshal/unmarshal and reflect JSON Schema documents.

Reflector

type MyStruct struct {
    Amount float64  `json:"amount" minimum:"10.5" example:"20.6" required:"true"`
    Abc    string   `json:"abc" pattern:"[abc]"`
    _      struct{} `additionalProperties:"false"`                   // Tags of unnamed field are applied to parent schema.
    _      struct{} `title:"My Struct" description:"Holds my data."` // Multiple unnamed fields can be used.
}

reflector := jsonschema.Reflector{}

schema, err := reflector.Reflect(MyStruct{})
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}

j, err := json.MarshalIndent(schema, "", " ")
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}

fmt.Println(string(j))

// Output:
// {
//  "title": "My Struct",
//  "description": "Holds my data.",
//  "required": [
//   "amount"
//  ],
//  "additionalProperties": false,
//  "properties": {
//   "abc": {
//    "pattern": "[abc]",
//    "type": "string"
//   },
//   "amount": {
//    "examples": [
//     20.6
//    ],
//    "minimum": 10.5,
//    "type": "number"
//   }
//  },
//  "type": "object"
// }

Customization

By default, JSON Schema is generated from Go struct field types and tags. It works well for the majority of cases, but if it does not there are rich customization options.

Field tags

type MyObj struct {
   BoundedNumber int `query:"boundedNumber" minimum:"-100" maximum:"100"`
   SpecialString string `json:"specialString" pattern:"^[a-z]{4}$" minLength:"4" maxLength:"4"`
}

Note: field tags are only applied to inline schemas, if you use named type then referenced schema will be created and tags will be ignored. This happens because referenced schema can be used in multiple fields with conflicting tags, therefore customization of referenced schema has to done on the type itself via RawExposer, Exposer or Preparer.

Each tag value has to be put in double quotes ("123").

These tags can be used:

title, string
description, string
default, can be scalar or JSON value
example, a scalar value that matches type of parent property, for an array it is applied to items
examples, a JSON array value
const, can be scalar or JSON value
pattern, string
format, string
multipleOf, float > 0
maximum, float
minimum, float
maxLength, integer
minLength, integer
maxItems, integer
minItems, integer
maxProperties, integer
minProperties, integer
exclusiveMaximum, boolean
exclusiveMinimum, boolean
uniqueItems, boolean
enum, tag value must be a JSON or comma-separated list of strings
required, boolean, marks property as required

Unnamed fields can be used to configure parent schema:

type MyObj struct {
   BoundedNumber int `query:"boundedNumber" minimum:"-100" maximum:"100"`
   SpecialString string `json:"specialString" pattern:"^[a-z]{4}$" minLength:"4" maxLength:"4"`
   _             struct{} `additionalProperties:"false" description:"MyObj is my object."`
}

In case of a structure with multiple name tags, you can enable filtering of unnamed fields with ReflectContext.UnnamedFieldWithTag option and add matching name tags to structure (e.g. query:"_").

type MyObj struct {
   BoundedNumber int `query:"boundedNumber" minimum:"-100" maximum:"100"`
   SpecialString string `json:"specialString" pattern:"^[a-z]{4}$" minLength:"4" maxLength:"4"`
   // These parent schema tags would only be applied to `query` schema reflection (not for `json`).
   _ struct{} `query:"_" additionalProperties:"false" description:"MyObj is my object."`
}

Implementing interfaces on a type

There are a few interfaces that can be implemented on a type to customize JSON Schema generation.

Preparer allows to change generated JSON Schema.
Exposer overrides generated JSON Schema.
RawExposer overrides generated JSON Schema.
Described exposes description.
Titled exposes title.
Enum exposes enum values.
NamedEnum exposes enum values with names.

And a few interfaces to expose subschemas (anyOf, allOf, oneOf, not and if, then, else).

AnyOfExposer exposes anyOf subschemas.
AllOfExposer exposes allOf subschemas.
OneOfExposer exposes oneOf subschemas.
NotExposer exposes not subschema.
IfExposer exposes if subschema.
ThenExposer exposes then subschema.
ElseExposer exposes else subschema.

There are also helper functions jsonschema.AllOf, jsonschema.AnyOf, jsonschema.OneOf to create exposer instance from multiple values.

Configuring the reflector

Additional centralized configuration is available with jsonschema.ReflectContext and Reflect options.