19 Improving input validation with advanced JSON Schema
This chapter covers
- JSON Schema keywords for validation
- Enhancing PetSitter schemas with those keywords
The PetSitter team’s journey started with a domain model. Building upon that domain model, they created a set of common, reusable schemas in their OpenAPI definition. Then they referenced those schemas in the requests and responses of their API operations. We learned in chapter 13 that we can autogenerate backend code that automatically performs input validation based on the schemas. We also used Prism, an OpenAPI-powered mocking and testing tool, to detect whether the API responses follow the schemas and whether our API backend upholds the contract described with OpenAPI.
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