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Incomplete type definition for array/Collection properties

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
backend-api-design

Research direction

Start with the updated test referenced in commit 2a9b859fac14a412de68917655c9cf928d31d651 and trace the schema-generation path for array or Collection properties. Done means a collection of nested beans produces an array schema whose items include the nested object properties, rather than only {"type":"array"}.

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Description

NOTE: cleaved off of #34

This bug seems not to be completely fixed. It doesn't throw a NPE anymore, but it doesn't generate the schema correctly either. It just generates:

{
    "type":"array"
}

I extended the test to use a collection of nested beans, and expected to see the schema of the nested items, e.g.:

    {
      "type" : "array",
      "items" : {
        "type" : "object",
        "properties" : {
          "property1" : {
            "type" : "integer"
          },
          "property2" : {
            "type" : "string"
          }
        }
      }
    }

See updated test: https://github.com/greyfairer/jackson-module-jsonSchema/commit/2a9b859fac14a412de68917655c9cf928d31d651

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