NOTE: This page lists implementations with (or actively working towards) support for draft-06 or later.

For implementations supporting only draft-04 or older, or that are no longer in development, see the Obsolete Implementations page.

Implementations below are written in different languages, and support part, or all, of at least one recent version of the specification.

Implementations are classified based on their functionality. When known, the license of the project is also mentioned.

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Validators

Benchmarks

Benchmarks that compare at least two implementations supporting draft-06+ may be listed here.

  • Go
  • JavaScript
    • json-schema-benchmark - an independent benchmark for Node.js JSON-schema validators based on JSON-Schema Test Suite (MIT)
  • PHP
    • php-json-schema-bench - comparative benchmark for JSON-schema PHP validators using JSON-Schema Test Suite and z-schema/JSCK (MIT)

API documentation

  • JavaScript
    • @cloudflare/doca (JSON Schema Tools), draft-04, -06, -07, and Doca extensions (UI forthcoming)
    • @adobe/jsonschema2md makes it easier by providing a number of scripts that can turn JSON Schema files into readable Markdown documentation that is ready for consumption on GitHub or processed using Jekyll or other static site generators. JSON Schema 2019-09 (partial)
  • Python
    • FastAPI (MIT) is an API framework based on Python 3.6+ types that generates OpenAPI 3 schemas, including JSON Schemas for all the models declared.

Schema generators

Schema generators need not support generating every schema keyword. For schema generators, compatibility with a draft means that either:

  • Schemas produced explicitly set the draft with $schema
  • Schemas produced lack $schema but are valid against the appropriate meta-schema

For example, the only incompatibilities between draft-04 and draft-06 involve exclusiveMinimum, exclusiveMaximum, and id vs $id. If a generator does not set $schema and does not ever emit those keywords, then it is compatible with draft-06 even if it was written with draft-04 in mind.

From code

  • .NET
    • Json.NET (AGPL-3.0) - generates schemas from .NET types
    • NJsonSchema - (Ms-PL) - generates schemas from .NET types, see issue 574 for draft-06+ support progress
  • PHP
    • Liform (MIT) - generates schemas from Symfony forms
  • TypeScript
  • Python
    • Pydantic (MIT) - generates schemas from Python models based on Python 3.6+ type hints.
  • Java
    • jsonschema-generator (Apache 2.0) - generates schemas from Java types supports Draft 7 and Draft 2019-09
  • Scala

From data

  • Java
  • Scala
    • Schema Guru (Apache 2.0) - CLI util, Spark Job and Web UI for deriving JSON Schemas out of corpus of JSON instances; see issue 178 for progress towards draft-06+ support
  • Clojure
  • Online (web tool)
    • jsonschema.net - generates schemas from example data
    • Liquid Online Tools - infer JSON Schema from sample JSON data
    • quicktype.io - infer JSON Schema from samples, and generate TypeScript, C++, go, Java, C#, Swift, etc. types from JSON Schema

Generators from schemas

Tools that generate artifacts from schemas need not support every keyword, as not all keywords work well for generative use cases.

Generators are considered compatible with a draft if they support (or benignly ignore) the appropriate $schema value, and interpret the keywords that they do support according to that draft.

For example, if a generator that was originally written for draft-04 does not support id, exclusiveMinimum, or exclusiveMaxium, then as long as it does not require a draft-04 $schema, it is compatible with draft-06 since those are the only keywords that changed.

Code generation

  • Elm
  • Java
    • jsonCodeGen (MIT) - Groovy based generation tasks from JSON schema. Already includes templates/generators for Java Beans, Swagger specification files and PlantUML diagrams.
    • jsonschema2pojo (Apache 2.0) - generates Java types from JSON Schema (or example JSON) and can annotate those types for data-binding with Jackson 2.x or Gson. draft-07
    • jsonschematypes (Apache 2.0) - Java library to generate Java or TypeScript classes from standard JSON Schemas. JSON Schema 2019-09, draft-07, -06, -04, -03
    • jsongenerator JSON Schema 2019-09, draft-07, -06, -04, -03 (Apache-2.0)
  • Kotlin
  • Online (web tool)
    • quicktype.io - infer JSON Schema from samples, and generate TypeScript, C++, go, Java, C#, Swift, etc. types from JSON Schema
  • PHP
  • Python
    • yacg (MIT) - parse JSON Schema and OpenApi files to build a meta model from them. This meta model can be used in Mako templates to generate source code, other schemas or plantUml.
    • statham (MIT) - generate type-annotated models from JSON Schema documents.
  • Rust
    • schemafy - generates Rust types and serialization code from a JSON schema. supports Draft 4
  • TypeScript
    • jsongenerator JSON Schema 2019-09, draft-07, -06, -04, -03 (Apache-2.0)

Web UI generation

TODO: Sort by draft support.

Various levels of support for UI generation primarily from the validation vocabulary or combined with UI specific definition.

Data from schemas

  • Python
    • hypothesis-jsonschema (MPL) draft-07, -06, -04; takes any schema, even with complex and interacting constraints, and returns a Hypothesis strategy which can generate valid documents for testing.
  • Java
    • jsongenerator JSON Schema 2019-09, draft-07, -06, -04, -03 (Apache-2.0)

Utilities

Draft compatibility for utilities is generally specific to the purpose of the utility, and decided on a case-by-case basis.

General processing

  • JavaScript
    • json-schema-ref-parser (MIT) Tools for dereferencing non-cyclic schemas, bundling referenced schemas into a single file, and other $ref processing.
    • @cloudflare/json-schema-walker (JSON Schema Tools), draft-07, -06, -04, and Cloudflare’s Doca extensions Walks schemas and runs pre- and post-walk callbacks. Can modify schemas in place. (BSD-3-Clause)
    • @hyperjump/json-schema-core (MIT) Tools for working with schemas that handle identifiers and references. Build vocabularies and other JSON Schema based tools.

Schema to Schema

Schema draft migration

None currently support draft-06 or later.

Format converters

Testing

  • Python
    • hypothesis-jsonschema (MPL) draft-07, -06, -04; takes any schema, even with complex and interacting constraints, and returns a Hypothesis strategy which can generate valid documents for testing.

Editors

  • Altova XMLSpy 2019r3 - Graphical JSON Schema editor for draft-06 and draft-7, as well as validation of JSON files based on JSON Schema
  • Dashjoin JSON Schema editor - Graphical online JSON Schema editor for draft-06 (minus oneOf, anyOf, allOf, not). The generated schema can be tested immediately via a form that is driven by it.
  • JSONBuddy - Text and grid-style JSON editor and validator with JSON schema analyzer, context sensitive entry-helpers and sample data generation based on JSON schema. Support for draft-4, draft-6, draft-7 and 2019-09.
  • JSONEditor Online - View, edit, format, and validate JSON online Support draft-4, draft-6, and draft-7.
  • Liquid JSON Schema Editor - Graphical JSON Schema editor for draft-04, draft-06, draft-07 and 2019-09, with split source code and grphical editing. Includes validation of JSON files based on JSON Schema, JSON Sample Generator and JSON Schema Documentation Generator.
  • Oxygen JSON Editor - JSON editor with a variety of editing features and helper views. Support for validation and editing JSON Schema draft-4, draft-6, and draft-7. Validation and editing of JSON files based on JSON Schema.
  • Stoplight Studio - JSON Schema IDE (text-based and GUI) with support for JSON/YAML linting, which can also be based on JSON Schema rules via Spectral. Support for draft-4, draft-6 and draft-7.
  • Visual Studio Code - Schema driven code completion, hovers and validation for editing JSON files (including schemas)
  • WebStorm, IntelliJ IDEA, and other JetBrains IDEs - Code completion, documentation, and validation for JSON and YAML files using JSON Schema. Support for draft-4, draft-6, and draft-7.
  • Eclipse IDE - Rich JSON edition supporting schema for instantaneous validation and error reporting, completion, documentation.

Documentation generators

  • jsonschematic - Svelte-based schema viewer. Runs as a local web app. Supports draft-7.
  • docson - Javascript-based schema viewer. Runs as a local web app. Supports draft-4.
  • json-schema-for-humans - Generate HTML representation of a schema. Python-based. Supports draft-7.

Schema Repositories

Schema Linter

  • json-schema-linter - Lint/validate/parse json-schema itself, and find typos, missing properties, missing required keys, etc. Supports draft 4, 6, and 7.
  • Stoplight Spectral - A flexible JSON/YAML linter for creating automated style guides, with baked in support for OpenAPI v2/v3 and JSON Schema. Supports draft 4, 6, and 7.

Hyper-Schema