Transforming JSON schema test suite items into other data formats

[Markus-Elfring]

The JSON Schema Test Suite is using its own data structures for test purposes.
I imagine that additional test formats can be helpful.
How do you think about to split a “test case” of this software into smaller JSON files which would be stored together in directories? 🤔

I would appreciate if provided JSON schemas (and corresponding test data) can be directly passed to analysis tools for further checks.

[Julian]

Tests are already split into multiple files. I'm afraid I don't follow beyond that what you're asking for.

[Julian]

Are you asking whether every test should be in its own file? That doesn't seem like a reasonable layout. Grouping tests together into small collections is useful for organizing.

[Markus-Elfring]

Are you asking whether every test should be in its own file?

💭 I suggest to make test case objects (like the following) usable as separate files.

• schema
• test data
• test result expectation

That doesn't seem like a reasonable layout.

I dare to present additional software development ideas.

Grouping tests together into small collections is useful for organizing.

Such information is generally fine.

💭 I propose to increase the data access granularity for involved items.

[Julian]

This isn't a change the suite is going to make. We may at some point tweak the layout a bit, but if you really want such a thing it's somewhat trivial to flatten the suite into individual files with some simple programming, it's just a JSON array.

[Markus-Elfring]

💭 Can any data processing approaches benefit from the possibility to make schemas and test data better separately accessible?

[Julian]

Possibly! Feel free to make such a thing into a tool. The suite can already perform the opposite operation, turning itself into a single file containing all cases, by running bin/jsonschema_suite flatten.