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This tidies up the increasingly long Schema Object section and adds
explanations of what I've been calling "extended validation",
including validating `readOnly` and `writeOnly`, and also using
a `oneOf` or `anyOf` with `const` plus annotations for enumerated
types with additional information.

There are many OAS issues/discussions where we have recommended
these techniques, so it makes sense to include them in 3.1.1 where
draft 2020-12's formal collection of annotations enables tools
to build support for them.
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This object MAY be extended with [Specification Extensions](#specification-extensions), though as noted, additional properties MAY omit the `x-` prefix within this object.

##### Extended Validation with Annotations

JSON Schema draft 2020-12 supports [collecting annotations](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bhutton-json-schema-00#section-7.7.1), including [treating unrecognized keywords as annotations](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bhutton-json-schema-00#section-6.5).
OAS implementations MAY use such annotations, including [extensions](https://spec.openapis.org/registry/extension/) not recognized as part of a declared JSON Schema vocabulary, as the basis for further validation.

###### Non-validating constraint keywords

The [`format` keyword (when using default format-annotation vocabulary)](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bhutton-json-schema-validation-00#section-7.2.1) and the [`contentMediaType`, `contentEncoding`, and `contentSchema` keywords](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bhutton-json-schema-validation-00#section-8.2) define constraints on the data, but are treated as annotations instead of being validated directly.
Extended validation is one way that these constraints MAY be enforced.

###### Validating `readOnly` and `writeOnly`

The `readOnly` and `writeOnly` keywords are annotations, as JSON Schema is not aware of how the data it is validating is being used.
Validation of these keywords MAY be done by checking the annotation, the read or write direction, and (if relevant) the current value of the field.
[JSON Schema Validation draft 2020-12 §9.4](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bhutton-json-schema-validation-00#section-9.4) defines the expectations of these keywords, including that resource (described as the "owning authority") MAY either ignore a `readOnly` field or treat it as an error.

An example of where ignoring a "written" `readOnly` field might be appropriate is a PUT request where the field is included but the value has not been changed, since the alternative of leaving out the field would result in the field's deletion per [[RFC7231]].

Note that the behavior of `readOnly` in particular differs from that specified by version 3.0 of this specification.

##### Data Modeling Techniques

###### Composition and Inheritance (Polymorphism)

The OpenAPI Specification allows combining and extending model definitions using the `allOf` keyword of JSON Schema, in effect offering model composition.
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An example is included in the "Schema Object Examples" section below, and further information can be found on the Learn OpenAPI site's ["Dynamic References"](https://learn.openapis.org/referencing/dynamic.html) page.

###### Annotated Enumerations

The Schema Object's `enum` keyword does not allow associating descriptions or other information with individual values.

Implementations MAY support recognizing a `oneOf` or `anyOf` where each subschema in the keyword's array consists of a `const` keyword and annotations such as `title` or `description` as an enumerated type with additional information. The exact behavior of this pattern beyond what is required by JSON Schema is implementation-defined.

###### XML Modeling

The [xml](#schema-xml) field allows extra definitions when translating the JSON definition to XML.
The [XML Object](#xml-object) contains additional information about the available options.

###### Specifying Schema Dialects
##### Specifying Schema Dialects

It is important for tooling to be able to determine which dialect or meta-schema any given resource wishes to be processed with: JSON Schema Core, JSON Schema Validation, OpenAPI Schema dialect, or some custom meta-schema.

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