A Type System for Interactive JSON Schema Inference (Extended Abstract)

Authors Mohamed-Amine Baazizi, Dario Colazzo, Giorgio Ghelli, Carlo Sartiani



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Mohamed-Amine Baazizi
  • Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LIP6 UMR 7606, Paris, France
Dario Colazzo
  • Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL, LAMSADE, France
Giorgio Ghelli
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy
Carlo Sartiani
  • DIMIE, Università della Basilicata - Potenza, Italy

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Mohamed-Amine Baazizi, Dario Colazzo, Giorgio Ghelli, and Carlo Sartiani. A Type System for Interactive JSON Schema Inference (Extended Abstract). In 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 132, pp. 101:1-101:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.101

Abstract

In this paper we present the first JSON type system that provides the possibility of inferring a schema by adopting different levels of precision/succinctness for different parts of the dataset, under user control. This feature gives the data analyst the possibility to have detailed schemas for parts of the data of greater interest, while more succinct schema is provided for other parts, and the decision can be changed as many times as needed, in order to explore the schema in a gradual fashion, moving the focus to different parts of the collection, without the need of reprocessing data and by only performing type rewriting operations on the most precise schema.

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  • Theory of computation → Type theory
  • Information systems → Semi-structured data
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  • JSON
  • type systems
  • interactive inference

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