Some basic tests for hyper-schema

[mpalmer]

Nothing particularly interesting or exciting, but it does mean that I can get a quick indication of whether my changes to the json-schema gem I'm working on actually do what they should.

[Julian]

I know essentially nothing about the hyper-schema, but from what I can tell, these tests are basically meta schema tests, which means they're sort of redundant doesn't it? If your validator passes all of the tests in the rest of the suite, then all of these tests are accomplished by just running your validator on your hyper schema with the meta-hyper-schema as the schema. AIUI the hyper-schema doesn't actually define any additional validation behavior. Is that correct?

@geraintluff care to chime in?

[mpalmer]

They would certainly be redundant if hyper-schema declared itself to use the base schema. As it stands, however, hyper-schema is entirely its own thing, according to its schema declaration.

[geraintluff]

These tests look like they're testing whether the hyper-meta-schema correctly describes the structure of links/readOnly/media.

While this is useful, this is a test of the meta-schemas themselves, and not so much of a given validator.

Unless I'm missing something?

[geraintluff]

Actual hyper-schema tests might be a good idea - but instead of testing validation using the hyper-meta-schema (which, as Julian says, seems redundant if validation in general works), hyper-schema tests would test things like media-type/link inference and read-only status.