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Given that AWS publishes a pseudo-schema[1], in JSON, I don't for the life of me understand why they don't use an actual JSON-Schema spec, saving the world a to

Given that AWS publishes a pseudo-schema[1], in JSON, I don't for the life of me understand why they don't use an actual JSON-Schema spec, saving the world a ton of trouble instead of building a separate project[2] to try and reverse engineer their spec into a standard schema :-( 1 = https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-resource-specification.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui... 2 = https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-template-schema https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-tem...

myroon5 6y ago
Might find these interesting if you haven't seen them yet: https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-resource-schema https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-res... https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/resource-type-schemas.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui... (Released this year: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudformation-update-cli-third-party-resource-support-registry/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudformation-update-cli-t...)