how can we link one jsonschema to another jsonschema

Question

path of the file is E:\JSONSchema\Files\details.json

{
  "type": "array",
  "items": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "id": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "tagid": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "id",
      "tagid"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false
  }
}

I want to reuse the above jsonschema in another file which is located in E:\JSONSchema\Core\visuals.json. How can I proceed to achieve it?

Answer 1

use $ref and provide an absolute path as a value

Example:

file path: E:\JSONSchema\Files\details.json

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
  "reuse": {
    "type": "array",
    "items": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "tagid": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "id",
        "tagid"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  }
}

If I want to reuse in another file the sample code will look like

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "firstName": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "lastName": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "IDs": {
      "$ref": "file:/E:/JSONSchema/Files/details.json#/reuse"
    }
  }
}

Another way of achieving this is by using id. Check the following code.

{
      "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
      "id": "file:/E:/JSONSchema/Files/details.json",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "firstName": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "lastName": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "IDs": {
          "$ref": "#/reuse"
        }
      }
    }