If a given piece of data can be many different shapes, then you can use oneOf
or anyOf
. For instance here you could have:
{
"type" : "object",
"additionalProperties" : {
"oneOf": [
{... string ...},
{... array of strings ...},
...
]
}
}
Actually, because the options here are all distinct types, you can simply have multiple entries in type
instead:
{
"type" : "object",
"additionalProperties" : {
"type": ["string", "array", "object"],
"items": {"type": "string", ...}, // constraints if it's an array
"properties": {...} // properties if it's an object
}
}