Dictionary-like JSON schema

Question

I have a json object that can contain any number of nested objects with certain specification, for example:

{
  \"Bob\": {
    \"age\": \"42\",
    \"gender\         


        

Answer 1

additionalProperties is your keyword:

{
    "type" : "object",
    "additionalProperties" : {
        "type" : "object",
        "required" : [
            "age",
            "gender"
        ],
        "properties" : {
            "age" : {
                "type" : "string"
            },
            "gender" : {
                "type" : "string"
            }
        }
    }
}

additionalProperties can have following values with different meanings:

• "additionalProperties": false No more properties are allowed at all.
• "additionalProperties": true Any more properties are allowed. This is the default behavior.
• "additionalProperties": {"type": "string"} Additional properties (of arbitrary name) are allowed, if they have value of given type ("string" here).
• "additionalProperties": {*any schema*} Additional properties must satisfy the provided schema, such as the example provided above.