This package contains sphinx-jsonschema, an extension to Sphinx to allow authors to display a JSON Schema in their documentation.

It arose out of a personal itch and implements what I needed. Some features of JSON Schema are (not yet) implemented. Also I can imagine that other display layouts are desired.

Let me know in comments and perhaps pull requests.

• Near complete support for all features of JSON Schema Draft 4.
• Supports inline schemas as well as external schemas loaded from a file or URL.
• Supports JSON Pointer notation on external resources to select a subschema.
• Supports cross references between schemas.
• Allows reStructuredText markup in title and description fields.
• Allows JSON Schema definitions in both JSON and YAML format.
• Supports the example keyword from Draft 7.

Install the package using pip:

pip install sphinx-jsonschema

and add it to the extensions list in your conf.py:

extensions = [
    'sphinx-jsonschema'
]

The extension adds a single directive to Sphinx: jsonschema. You provide it with either an http URL to a schema or you may embed the schema inline.

Display a schema fetched from a website:

.. jsonschema:: http://some.domain/with/a/path/spec.json

Display a schema located in a file with an absolute path:

.. jsonschema:: /home/leo/src/jsonschema/sample.json

Or a path relative to the referencing document:

.. jsonschema:: jsonschema/sample.json

With all three of the above you may add JSON Pointer notation to display a subschema:

.. jsonschema:: http://some.domain/with/a/path/spec.json#/path/to/schema
.. jsonschema:: /home/leo/src/jsonschema/sample.json#/path/to/schema
.. jsonschema:: jsonschema/sample.json#/path/to/schema

Alternatively you can embed the schema:

.. jsonschema::

    {
        "$schema": "This field is ignored for now. Perhaps use it to indicate schema version in display?",
        "title": "Test data set 1: **Simple type**",
        "id": "http://this.better.be.a.regular.domain",
        "description": "These data sets exercise `JSON Schema <http://json-schema.org>`_ constructions and show how they are rendered.\n\nNote that it is possible to embed reStructuredText elements in strings.",
        "type": "string",
        "minLength": 10,
        "maxLength": 100,
        "pattern": "^[A-Z]+$"
    }

This notation does not support JSON Pointer.

$$target

sphinx-jsonschema extends JSON Schema with the $$target key.

This key is only recognized at the outermost object of the schema.

JSON Schema uses the $ref key in combination with the $id key to cross-reference between schemas.

Sphinx-jsonschema ignores $id but uses the value of $ref to create a reStructuredText :ref: role.

For this to work you need to mark the target schema with the $$target key, the value of which must be identical to the value of the corresponding $ref key.

So a schema:

{
    "title": "Schema 1",
    "$ref": "#/definitions/schema2"
}

will have its $ref replaced by a link pointing to:

{
    "title": "Schema 2",
    "$$target": "#/definitions/schema2"
    ...
}

Occasionally a schema will be addressed from several other schemas using different $ref values. In that case the value of $$target should be a list enumerating all different references to the schema.

Copyright Leo Noordergraaf, All rights reserved.

This software is made available under the GPL v3.

Tom Walter (https://github.com/EvilPuppetMaster) contributed the example support.

Chris Holdgraf (https://github.com/choldgraf) contributed Python3 and yaml support.

Add unicode support.

Improved formatting.

Implemented schema cross referencing.

Initial release of a functioning plugin.