How to specify a property as null or a reference?
问题 I have a json document in which a part can be either null or a subobject, like this: [{ "owner":null }, { "owner":{ "id":1 } }] The question is if its possible to model this in json schema draft v4 using ref? What I would like is something like this { "type":"object", "properties":{ "owner":{ "type":["null", "object"], "$ref":"#/definitions/id" } }, "definitions":{ "id":{ "type":"object", "properties":{ "id":{ "type":"number" } } } } } 回答1: What you've posted should work, if you remove the