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union {
string [ "Sr.", "Jr.", "III" ];
null;
} suffix;
B.3.11
Any types
"Any types" are represented in Orderly using the any type specifier:
any notes;
B.3.12
Unions
It is possible in JSONSchema to specify a property that may be of one of many different types. In Orderly
this functionality is represented using the union type specifier:
union {
string;
number;
} myUnion;
A key syntactic feature to note is the supported (required) omission of property names where they would
be meaningless.
B.3.13
Maps
Associative arrays are neither defined in Orderly nor in JSONSchema. The CMIS Browser Binding introduces
associative arrays (“maps”) to describe a collection of unique keys and a collection of values.
Maps describe JSON objects without fixing the property names and the number of properties. The keys
become JSON object property names and have to be non-null strings. Keys can be restricted, for example,
by defining a min and max length, regular expressions, an enum, etc. The values data type can be defined
by any unnamed entry including null.
Maps are specified using the map type specifier. Key and value types are defined within curly braces. The
key type first, followed by “=>”, followed by the value type:
For example:
map { string => boolean } isAllowed;
map { string{2,10} => union { string; integer; null; } } things;
map { string [ "happy", "sad", "meh" ] => integer } intMapping;
B.3.14
Extensions or Extra Properties
Orderly is capable of concisely representing a subset of JSONSchema, however at times it might be desirable
to be able to represent properties in JSONSchema that are not supported natively in Orderly. For this
reason the backtick operators will allow you to encode a JSON object as part of an Orderly schema.
For example to attach a description to a schema entry one might generate something like:
string `{"description": "The name of the service"}`;
The author has full control over formatting, as whitespace is ignored:
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