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		paulddraper on Sept 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JSON Schema bundling formalised > otherwise your schema has no teeth I don't disagree, but FWIW, this is common deliberate choice. E.g. Protobufs work exactly the same way. Except unlike JSONSchema, there's no way to disable it. The reasoning is to permit future extensibility.

RustyRussell on Sept 12, 2021 [–]

For JSON itself, ignoring extra fields it makes sense. For validating my own output, it does not.

And validating someone else's output seems counterproductive?

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