From 03666e8775246e8e38a92515f9f6847b4f640571 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Wilson <joshuaw@squareup.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 09:17:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Document JSON ingestion schema APIs

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 # ElasticGraph::JSONIngestion
 
-JSON Schema ingestion support for ElasticGraph.
+Provides JSON Schema ingestion support for ElasticGraph.
 
 This gem provides the schema-definition extension that generates JSON Schema artifacts for indexing
-events and validates JSON-ingestion-specific schema options.
+events and validates JSON-ingestion-specific schema options. Generated ElasticGraph projects install
+and enable it by default. Applications that wire schema-definition tasks manually enable it by adding
+`ElasticGraph::JSONIngestion::SchemaDefinition::APIExtension` to their schema-definition extension modules.
+
+## Manual Setup
+
+Add `gem "elasticgraph-json_ingestion", *elasticgraph_details` to your `Gemfile`.
+
+Then require and register the extension in your schema-definition `Rakefile`:
+
+```ruby
+require "elastic_graph/json_ingestion/schema_definition/api_extension"
+require "elastic_graph/local/rake_tasks"
+
+ElasticGraph::Local::RakeTasks.new(
+  local_config_yaml: "config/settings/local.yaml",
+  path_to_schema: "config/schema.rb"
+) do |tasks|
+  tasks.schema_definition_extension_modules << ElasticGraph::JSONIngestion::SchemaDefinition::APIExtension
+end
+```
+
+## Schema Definition APIs
+
+Use `schema.json_schema_version` to identify the current JSON schema artifact. Every change that affects
+the JSON schema should increment this version so publishers and indexers can safely evolve independently.
+Generated projects start with `schema.json_schema_version 1` in `config/schema.rb`. During early prototyping,
+`schema.enforce_json_schema_version false` can disable version-change enforcement. For production applications,
+leave enforcement enabled so schema artifact changes require an intentional version bump in `config/schema.rb`.
+
+```ruby
+# in config/schema/json_schema_enforcement.rb
+
+ElasticGraph.define_schema do |schema|
+  schema.enforce_json_schema_version false
+end
+```
+
+Use `schema.json_schema_strictness` to configure whether indexing events may omit nullable fields or include
+extra fields. We recommend enabling at most one of these options, because enabling both can hide misspelled
+event fields.
+
+```ruby
+# in config/schema/json_schema_strictness.rb
+
+ElasticGraph.define_schema do |schema|
+  schema.json_schema_strictness allow_omitted_fields: true, allow_extra_fields: false
+end
+```
+
+Custom scalar types must declare how they are represented in JSON Schema:
+
+```ruby
+# in config/schema/url.rb
+
+ElasticGraph.define_schema do |schema|
+  schema.scalar_type "URL" do |t|
+    t.mapping type: "keyword"
+    t.json_schema type: "string", format: "uri"
+  end
+end
+```
+
+Fields can add JSON Schema validations. Use field-level validations sparingly: they run while indexing
+events, so violations can send otherwise valid source-system data to the dead letter queue. They are best
+reserved for constraints that ElasticGraph needs in order to index correctly.
+
+```ruby
+# in config/schema/card.rb
+
+ElasticGraph.define_schema do |schema|
+  schema.object_type "Card" do |t|
+    t.field "id", "ID!"
+
+    t.field "expYear", "Int" do |f|
+      f.json_schema minimum: 2000, maximum: 2099
+    end
+
+    t.field "expMonth", "Int" do |f|
+      f.json_schema minimum: 1, maximum: 12
+    end
+
+    t.index "cards"
+  end
+end
+```
+
+Object and interface types can provide a replacement JSON Schema when ElasticGraph's generated object schema
+is not appropriate. Prefer field-level validations unless you need full control of a type's JSON shape.
+
+On fields, `nullable: false` disallows `null` in indexing events while keeping the GraphQL field nullable:
+
+```ruby
+# in config/schema/widget.rb
+
+ElasticGraph.define_schema do |schema|
+  schema.object_type "Widget" do |t|
+    t.field "id", "ID!"
+
+    t.field "name", "String" do |f|
+      f.json_schema nullable: false
+    end
+
+    t.index "widgets"
+  end
+end
+```
 
 ## Dependency Diagram