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This PR strengthens JSON Schema validation, reference traversal, and version-cast compatibility handling.

Changes

  • Enforce standard JSON Schema format constraints during instance validation.
  • Return unknown compatibility verdicts when casting between distinct JSON Schema dialects.
  • Preserve intersecting allOf constraints while flattening cast schemas instead of allowing later definitions to overwrite earlier ones.
  • Correctly handle empty and unhashable enum values in cast compatibility checks.
  • Add a shared schema validator that bounds regex pattern evaluation to prevent catastrophic-match hangs.
  • Apply the shared validator to store and trait validation paths.
  • Traverse x-gts-ref through type-less objects, arrays, and local JSON Pointer references, with cycle protection.
  • Update the gts-spec submodule to v0.13.2.
  • Add regression coverage for standard formats, cast schema composition, enum edge cases, bounded regex matching, and cross-dialect cast results.

Validation

  • pytest tests/
  • pytest .gts-spec/tests

Notes

  • Standard uuid validation remains strict: GTS identifiers are not accepted as UUID values.
  • Regex-backed JSON Schema pattern evaluation now fails with a validation error after the configured timeout instead of blocking validation indefinitely.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for clearer GTS identifier and reference handling, including normalized schemes and type relationships.
    • Added robust JSON Pointer resolution, including URI fragments and root references.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved schema compatibility reporting across different JSON Schema dialects.
    • Improved validation of nested schemas, local and cyclic references, and schemas without explicit types.
    • Standard uuid and time formats are now validated consistently.
    • Regular-expression validation now safely handles invalid or excessively complex patterns.
    • Improved handling of conflicting constraints, enums, and additional properties during schema compatibility checks.

Apply x-gts-ref validation to type-less object and array schemas, and
resolve local JSON Pointer references while guarding against cycles.

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Enable JSON Schema format checking for instance validation and return
unknown compatibility verdicts when casts cross JSON Schema dialects.

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The change centralizes GTS naming and JSON Pointer handling, updates schema compatibility and casting, adds bounded regular-expression and standard-format validation, and improves local reference traversal.

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GTS naming, pointers, and identifier handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
GTS naming and pointer primitives
gts/src/gts/_naming.py, gts/src/gts/_json_pointer.py, gts/src/gts/gts.py, gts/src/gts/entities.py, gts/src/gts/_json_validation.py, gts/src/gts/ops.py, tests/test_traits.py, tests/test_gts_id.py
Shared helpers normalize GTS identifiers, classify references, expose type identity, and resolve JSON Pointers.

Schema compatibility and casting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Compatibility and schema casting
gts/src/gts/compatibility.py, gts/src/gts/schema_cast.py, tests/test_schema_cast.py, tests/test_compatibility.py, .gts-spec
Compatibility checks safely lower unevaluatedProperties and detect dialect differences. Flattening intersects constraints and reports unknown compatibility across dialects.

Dialect-aware validation pipeline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dialect-aware validation pipeline
gts/pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, Makefile, gts/src/gts/schema_validation.py, gts/src/gts/store.py, gts/src/gts/traits.py, tests/test_store.py, tests/test_store_extra.py
Validation uses bounded regular expressions, shared format checkers, and dialect-aware validators. Store schema handling uses centralized parsing and normalization.

Local reference traversal

Layer / File(s) Summary
Local reference traversal
gts/src/gts/x_gts_ref.py, tests/test_x_gts_ref.py
Traversal resolves local references, prevents cycles, normalizes targets, and visits nested properties and items without explicit type keywords.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5b538

Schemas using a literal percent-encoded property name in a local reference can resolve to a different key, causing incorrect reference traversal and validation. Restrict decoding to URI fragments before merging.

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In `@gts/src/gts/compatibility.py`:
- Around line 140-148: Update the unsafe keyword list in the compatibility check
to include “if”, “then”, and “else” alongside the existing applicators, so
conditional schemas are rejected before lowering and _is_subschema cannot
produce an incorrect compatibility verdict.

In `@gts/src/gts/schema_cast.py`:
- Around line 488-489: Update the duplicate-key handling around the result merge
logic so repeated non-property constraints from allOf are not silently
discarded; preserve conflicting subschemas or combine supported keywords using
their JSON Schema intersection semantics, including additionalProperties, so
later restrictive constraints remain effective.
- Around line 442-449: Update the schema merge logic and
_check_schema_compatibility so conflicting keywords placed under allOf remain
visible to compatibility checks. Ensure supported intersections, including type,
enum, and range or length constraints, are normalized into inspectable values or
recursively evaluated from allOf. Preserve the tightened-schema incompatibility
result instead of treating hidden constraints as compatible.
- Around line 156-158: The cast() result must represent cross-dialect
compatibility consistently: when dialect_changed is true, do not retain
definitive boolean checker results alongside UNKNOWN string verdicts. Update the
boolean compatibility fields and to_dict() handling to use the same tri-state
semantics, such as null for unknown, while preserving definitive values when
dialects match.

In `@gts/src/gts/x_gts_ref.py`:
- Around line 106-107: Update the reference handling around the ref validation
logic to accept the root JSON Pointer fragment "#" before applying the "`#/`"
check, while preserving existing handling for other references. Add a regression
test covering a nested object whose "$ref" points to the root schema and ensure
nested x-gts-ref constraints are still traversed and invalid references are
rejected.

In `@tests/test_store.py`:
- Around line 319-322: Update the time value passed to
store.validate_instance_content in this test to include an RFC 3339 timezone
offset, while preserving the existing validation scenario and UUID.

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Signed-off-by: Artifizer <artifizer@gmail.com>
…ling

GTS identifier plumbing (the gts:// URI scheme, the bare gts. prefix and
the ~ type marker) was duplicated across the library: every consumer
defensively stripped the scheme, and JSON Pointer resolution (with its
~0/~1 escaping) was reimplemented three times. This spread low-level
string logic across modules and, worse, onto the public GtsID surface.

Move the primitives into a private _naming module and RFC 6901 pointer
resolution into a private _json_pointer module, both internal-only.
Introduce an internal GtsRef classifier so $ref handling (local pointer
vs gts:// vs other) lives in one place. Normalize the scheme once inside
GtsStore.get() so callers pass ids or URIs interchangeably without
stripping. Keep GtsID's public surface minimal: only meaningful members
(.id, .uri, .is_type, is_valid, parse_type), no scheme string helpers.

No behavior change; full test suite green.

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…ompat on dialect change

When flattening allOf-composed schemas for casting, repeated constraints
were wrapped in a nested allOf instead of being intersected, so tightened
bounds (minLength, minimum, enum, type, additionalProperties, ...) never
surfaced at the top level. Introduce constraint intersection and apply it
consistently to top-level keywords, object properties, and repeated
same-name property schemas.

Also report backward/forward/full compatibility as "unknown" (tri-state)
rather than a hard false when the JSON Schema dialect changes across the
cast, since the verdict cannot be established.

Finally, stop lowering unevaluatedProperties across conditional
applicators (if/then/else) in compatibility sanitization, and cover root
self-reference ($ref: "#") traversal in x-gts-ref validation.

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Instance and trait validation constructed the jsonschema validator with a
bare FormatChecker(), which draws from jsonschema's shared class-level
checker registry where the draft-3 "time" checker (HH:MM:SS, no timezone)
overwrites the draft6/7 successors. As a result valid RFC 3339 values such
as "10:30:00Z" were rejected while invalid UUIDs slipped through.

Introduce a shared FORMAT_CHECKER in schema_validation that combines the
bare checker (for "uuid", added only in draft 2019-09) with the draft-07
checkers (for correct RFC 3339 "time"/"date-time"), using only built-in
jsonschema checkers. Use it in store and reuse it from traits to drop the
duplicated construction.

Update the store test's baseline to a timezone-bearing time value, since
RFC 3339 "time" in draft-07 requires an offset.

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Patch release covering the recent bug fixes and internal refactors since
0.13.1 (RFC 3339 format enforcement, cast constraint intersection, naming
and id parsing centralization). No new features or public API changes.

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In `@gts/src/gts/_json_pointer.py`:
- Line 43: Update the shared resolve function to percent-decode URI fragments
after removing the leading # and before splitting tokens, so encoded property
names resolve correctly. Enforce JSON Pointer array-index syntax when traversing
lists: accept only 0 or an ASCII decimal token without a leading zero, returning
default for -1, 01, and other invalid indices. Add regression tests covering
`#/a`%20b, /-1, and /01.

In `@gts/src/gts/_naming.py`:
- Line 34: Update strip_scheme to remove the gts:// prefix only when the
remaining value is a valid GTS ID or reference beginning with gts.; otherwise
return the original value unchanged, preserving non-GTS raw IDs such as
gts://external-id for consistent GtsStore.register and GtsStore.get lookups.

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The GTS server uses pydantic v2 APIs (model_validator) but only pulled
pydantic transitively via FastAPI. The spec test-client requirements pin
pydantic<2 and share the venv, so refreshing py-env could downgrade
pydantic to v1 and break the FastAPI import (IncEx from pydantic.main).

Declare pydantic>=2,<3 directly in the package, and repurpose the unused
root requirements.txt into the local dev/test tooling file (pydantic
override, ruff, mypy) installed after the spec requirements so v2 wins.
Wire py-env to install from it instead of hardcoding the packages.

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- Line 44: Update the pointer normalization logic around the existing unquote
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