Usage of the JSON schema

[stevenjack]

Hey guys,

I'm the maintainer of cfndsl (A ruby DSL for generating CF) and I was talking to a few colleagues who use your eclipse plugin. They mentioned how it's able to auto complete and validate what's entered and that started making me think that there must be a schema somewhere that it's being checked against. After having a look around your code I found this:

CloudFormationV1.schema

Which seems like exactly that, a JSON schema.

My questions is two fold, is this a well maintained and generally up-to-date schema for the resources in CF?

If so would you mind if I added it as a dependency to cfndsl (I'll work out the best way of using it + caching etc) as this would really help with the ongoing maintenance of the project and help keep it as up-to-date as possible.

Steve

[fulghum]

Hey Steve, glad to hear you found the Cloud Formation schema interesting! Feel free to consume the schema; I hope it helps you and your tool out with using Cloud Formation. The schema should currently be up to date, and we generally keep it pretty closely in sync as Cloud Formation releases new features, but of course, we don't guarantee that it'll always be in sync.

I'll go ahead and close this issue, but thanks for letting us know about your tool!

[ebekker]

Please see cfndsl/cfndsl#264