Building a schema

There are two options when building a schema: defining it inline using the object model and defining it externally and deserializing. Which method you use depends on your specific requirements.

Deserialization

Manatee.Json schemas are fully serializable using the default serializer settings. Just create a new JsonSerializer and deserialize as you would any other object.

var serializer = new JsonSerializer();
var text = File.ReadAllText("mySchema.json");
var json = JsonValue.Parse(text);
var mySchema = serializer.Deserialize<JsonSchema>(json);

Done.

Inline

To build a schema inline, you can either declare all of the keywords individually and add them to a JsonSchema instance:

{
    "properties":{
        "myProperty":{
            "type":"string",
            "minLength":10
        }
    },
    "required":["myProperty"]
}

var schema = new JsonSchema {
    new PropertiesKeyword {
        ["myProperty"] = new JsonSchema {
            new TypeKeyword(JsonSchemaType.String),
            new MinLengthKeyword(10)
        }
    },
    new RequiredKeyword{ "myProperty" }
};

or you can use the fluent interface:

var schema = new JsonSchema()
    .Property("myProperty", new JsonSchema()
        .Type(JsonSchemaType.String),
        .MinLength(10))
    .Required("myProperty");

NOTE The meta-schemas exposed by the library are built using the fluent syntax.