GSoC: Bowtie and the World of JSON Schema

[Julian]

(#308)

Project title: Bowtie and the World of JSON Schema

Brief Description

The world of JSON Schema is immense. JSON Schema tooling exists in countless languages across a variety of uses (data validation of course a noteworthy and prominent one). Implementing the JSON Schema specification(s) in a fully compliant way is not without challenge, meaning as a user of JSON Schema it is important to understand how a particular implementation may deviate such that one can make constructive tooling choices or help implementations improve. Bowtie is a recently created tool to aide in this task, helping to surface the conformance of various JSON Schema tools with the specification by running them against a set of known correct test cases and regularly rendering the results to a web page. But it can do more!

Expected Outcomes

• Enhance (or replace) Bowtie's simplistic current UI so that it most easily answers "what do various implementations say about each test case" -- making it snappier and more featureful
• Add support for further JSON Schema implementations by creating Bowtie harnesses in additional languages
• Teach Bowtie to compare not only True/False validation results but also the full JSON Schema standardized output formats
• Generate badges for implementations using https://shields.io/endpoint

Skills Required

• HTML/CSS/Javascript familiarity
• Some notion of what JSON Schema is -- or equivalently some experience using a similar data validation tool including writing SQL Schemas for databases
• Basic experience with any of a broad set of languages with JSON Schema implementations or curiosity to learn enough about them to write a simple program
• Some Python experience a strong plus

Mentors

@Julian

Expected Difficulty
Easy-Medium

Expected Time Commitment
175 Hour

[Pavan-Nambi]

Hey @Julian ,

I hope you are doing good! , I wanted to inquire about the necessary steps for familiarizing myself with the codebase for this issue . (I am aware that the Google Summer of Code applications have not started. )
and also Would you recommend starting with the resources available at https://json-schema.org/learn/ as a good starting point? or if there is anything i should be familiar with kindly lmk

Edit: is this related to this?

Thank you for your time and assistance.

[Julian]

Hey there! Thanks, same!

Definitely starting by familiarizing yourself with JSON Schema at that link is the right first step. Understanding JSON Schema in particular is a great resource to read.

The second link is not so related, it's about a different part of JSON Schema.

Feel free to follow up if you do start reading through those learning resources!

[benjagm]

Hi @Pavan-Nambi , JSON Schema finally hasn't been accepted as a mentoring organisation but we are collaborating with one of the accepted organisations to get this idea included. The organzation is Postman, therefore we are moving the discussion to this issue: postman-open-technologies/gsoc-2023#15

[benjagm]

Closed and replaced by postman-open-technologies/gsoc-2023#15