json-editor VS pg_jsonschema

Combined with the fact that the parameter UI is highly dynamic through plugins(like how the extended choice parameters plugin supports defining complex input forms using json-editor means you can use Jenkins as an interface to run any kind of job that requires almost any type of input.

I use JSON schema to generate JSON-editing forms via json-editor: https://github.com/json-editor/json-editor

Then I can use the same schema in the backend to validate the data, both sent in via the form and directly with the application/json content-type. It's a pretty smooth flow, and reduces a lot of redundancy.

I have found stuff similar to this, for example json-editor.

JSON Editor takes a JSON Schema and uses it to generate an HTML form.

Some project followed that way like json-editor

json-editor is a really easy way to build complex forms. The resulting schema is returned as json which you can just convert to yaml. I use this in Jenkins for complex parameters.

https://github.com/json-editor/json-editor was used in the backbone.js version of swagger-ui to generate input forms from json-schema.

And lots of interesting extensions use it, like

https://github.com/tembo-io/pgmq

https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb

https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema

> In other words, there is still a (lossy) translation layer, it just happens to be in the RDBMS rather than in-app.

It's not lossy if your application can guarantee a json <-> datatype roundtrip and the json is validated with jsonschema (generated by your application)

In Rust it's something like this

https://serde.rs/ to do the data type <-> json mapping

https://docs.rs/schemars/latest/schemars/ to generate jsonschema from your types

https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema to validate jsonschema in your database (postgres). with this setup it's interesting (but not required) to also use https://docs.rs/jsonschema/latest/jsonschema/ to validate the schema in your application

Pretty exciting!

What about optionally validating some columns with jsonschema? Perhaps using https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema - is using other postgres extensions supported in FerretDB? (if not, maybe it's feasible to incorporate the code of pg_jsonschema in FerretDB?)

I'm not currently using it, but I'm strongly considering validating json in postgres with https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema - which uses the https://docs.rs/jsonschema/latest/jsonschema/ Rust crate

So I'm not sure if my feedback is valid but, I sure hope that the jsonschema crate follows the spec! Otherwise I'll never use jsonschema but instead something-not-exactly-jsonschema. In other words.. you better not break anything.

Sounds dumb, but I want JSON field schema validation. I added a JSON column for flexible data, and although I'm happy with its flexibility, I kinda hope I can validate the JSON data structure. Recently I just found an extension [1] and will try soon.

[1] https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema

https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema is new and looks good

Born as an excuse to play with pgx, pg_jsonschema is a solution we're exploring to allow enforcing more structure on json and jsonb typed postgres columns. Only 10 lines of code 😎