Intended date/time format for schema

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Intended date/time format for schema

[iadgovuser1]

@froi Thanks for the quick response. For now I've updated my code so it will validate against the current schema requirement (date only), but allowing both in the future would be great.

[DanielJDufour]

@iadgovuser1 , great question. @froi or @RicardoAReyes , can you help clarify? Thanks!

[froi]

Hi @iadgovuser1, thanks for reaching out.

In schema version 1.0.1 the date fields were just strings without the format specified. The intent of version 2.0.0 was always to give it a format to improve data quality. I believe that the intent was to accept both formats as stated in the description. Thanks for catching this oversight!

We will be discussing what approach to take, although I think we will update the schema to permit both formats.

Ex.

"date": {
    "type": "object",
    "description": "A date object describing the release.",
    "properties": {
        "created": {
            "anyOf": [{
                    "type": "string",
                    "format": "date"
                },
                {
                    "type": "string",
                    "format": "date-time"
                }
            ],
            "description": "The date the release was created, in YYYY-MM-DD or ISO 8601 format."
        },
        "lastModified": {
            "anyOf": [{
                    "type": "string",
                    "format": "date"
                },
                {
                    "type": "string",
                    "format": "date-time"
                }
            ],
            "description": "The date the release was modified, in YYYY-MM-DD or ISO 8601 format."
        },
        "metadataLastUpdated": {
            "anyOf": [{
                    "type": "string",
                    "format": "date"
                },
                {
                    "type": "string",
                    "format": "date-time"
                }
            ],
            "description": "The date the metadata of the release was last updated, in YYYY-MM-DD or ISO 8601 format."
        }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false
}

We will get back to you.

[iadgovuser1]

I forgot to mention the project I'm using the schema with: https://github.com/nsacyber/CodeGov This is what I use to generate https://nsacyber.github.io/code.json

Right now the schema is embedded in the code, but I might switch to dynamically retrieving the schema from https://github.com/GSA/code-gov-data/blob/master/schemas/schema-2.0.0.json

[DanielJDufour]

Hi, @iadgovuser1 . I'm moving this to code-gov-data where we are now hosting the schema discussions. Thanks!