API Strategy & Practice Conference 2017

JSON Schema is an extremely powerful, yet easily approachable, tool for describing data structures. In fact, the OpenAPI has embraced JSON Schema and currently uses it for describing the inputs/outputs of your APIs. JSON Schema is a technology that is often misunderstood and often used in ways that leave people scratching their heads when it does not work the way they expected. This talk will introduce JSON Schema from the ground up, complete with gotchas and best practices. In the end, the hope is that the attendee will see the value of JSON Schema and understand it well enough to use in their OpenAPI documents and even their own applications.