0.17.4

Changes:

• Added Type.Box() and Type.Ref() functions.

Notes:

This update provides the Type.Box() function to enable common related schemas to grouped under a common namespace; typically expressed as a URI. This functionality is primarily geared towards allowing one to define a common set of domain objects that may be shared across application domains running over a network. The Type.Box() is intended to be an analog to XML xmlns namespaces.

The Type.Ref() function is limited to referencing from boxes only. The following is an example.

// Domain objects for the fruit service.
const Fruit = Type.Box('https://fruit.domain.com', {
    Apple:  Type.Object({ ... }),
    Orange: Type.Object({ ... }),
})

// An order referencing types of the fruit service.
const Order = Type.Object({
    id:       Type.String(),
    quantity: Type.Number(),
    item:     Type.Union([
        Type.Ref(Fruit, 'Apple'),
        Type.Ref(Fruit, 'Orange')
    ])
})

Note: As of this release, the Type.Omit(), Type.Pick(), Type.Partial(), Type.Readonly() and Type.Intersect() functions do not work with Reference Types. This may change in later revisions.

For validation using Ajv, its possible to apply the Box directly as a schema.

ajv.addSchema(Fruit) // makes all boxed types known to Ajv

This functionality is flagged as EXPERIMENTAL and awaits community feedback.