Ace: New JSON mode with autocompletion, etc.

[mkosieradzki]

I have nearly completed my reimplementation of JSON mode with:

1. Support for multiple errors in code (instead of failing after first error)
2. JSON Schema validation support
3. Auto-completion support according to a provided JSON Schema
4. Contributions support: allowing insertion of code based on complex scenarios - for example downloading values from external data source
5. Custom validation - allowing to provide second level of logical validation of JSON document
   All operations are properly executed in web worker.

I would be happy to share my code, but there are two problems:

1. Major one: I am utilizing some JSON parsers from a different large project coming with an MIT license. This might be a dealbreaker.
2. Minor one: I am far too lazy to write tests for trivial code :-(
3. Would you like to accept such a PR (should I create one)?
4. How should I handle license headers for such a PR?

BTW. Great job implementing the ACE editor! :)

[nightwing]

That sounds interesting. Please submit a pr or give a link to the repository with the code, and we can decide how to proceed. If it's not possible to include in ace, we can still maintain json tooling in a separate repository. I actually want to move other workers into their own repositories too.

[mkosieradzki]

It is currently in my private repository so the action plan:
I will

1. complete my code (excluding contributions (4) and custom validation (5) mechanism - I will explain below why)
2. fork ace repo on GH
3. Move and cleanup code to this forker repo
4. Create a PR

I am going to

• keep all third pirty code in modes/json subdir after removing legacy parser. I am going to keep all the original MIT headers in this dir and also add LICENSE to this dir.
• push only the javascript files with proper simplified common js module stylings (I will not push the original typescript files). I will provide links to the original typescript files for reference in some documentation file.
• Apply my own modifications to the existing modes/json_worker, modes/json keeping BSD header

Regarding contributions and custom schema validation - I would need to create yet another extensibility kinds (like for modes, themes, etc) for plugable contributions and custom schema validation: this is something requiring more discussion - as for my own private fork I planned hardcoding of those mechanisms. Such plugins should be loadable into worker using standard ACE mechanisms.

Does this all sound reasonable?

[yanlantao]

Any update on this?Is this feature supported now?

[gerardojbaez]

Is this repository still maintained? 👀