# json-schema-deref-sync

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Dereference JSON pointers in a JSON schemas with their true resolved values.
Basically a lighter, synchronous version of [json-schema-deref](https://github.com/bojand/json-schema-deref) but omits web references.

## Installation

`npm install json-schema-deref-sync`

## Overview

Let's say you have the following JSON Schema:

```json
{
  "description": "Just some JSON schema.",
  "title": "Basic Widget",
  "type": "object",
  "definitions": {
    "id": {
      "description": "unique identifier",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "readOnly": true
    }
  },
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "$ref": "#/definitions/id"
    },
    "foo": {
      "$ref": "http://www.mysite.com/myschema.json#/definitions/foo"
    },
    "bar": {
      "$ref": "bar.json"
    }
  }
}
```

Sometimes you just want that schema to be fully expanded, with `$ref`'s being their (true) resolved values:

```json
{
  "description": "Just some JSON schema.",
  "title": "Basic Widget",
  "type": "object",
  "definitions": {
    "id": {
      "description": "unique identifier",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "readOnly": true
    }
  },
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "description": "unique identifier",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "readOnly": true
    },
    "foo": {
      "description": "foo property",
      "readOnly": true,
      "type": "number"
    },
    "bar": {
      "description": "bar property",
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  }
}
```

This utility lets you do that:


```js
var deref = require('json-schema-deref-sync');
var myschema = require('schema.json');

var fullSchema = deref(myschema);
```

## API Reference

{{>all-docs~}}