v3.2: Strengthen generic data types to a SHOULD #4657
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This was added as a MAY in 3.1.1 but we can make it a SHOULD in 3.2.
ralfhandl
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I thought I had already done this one-word change but I guess I forgot!
This was added as a MAY in 3.1.1 but we can make it a SHOULD in 3.2.
I'd love to make it a MUST but there might be scenarios where it is not feasible, or where alternate interpretations are valid. For example, the OAS schema and the JSON Schema metaschema use
$dynamicRef, but to support a recursive data structure rather than a generic one.This is the minimum change to more strongly encourage support for this much-demanded feature (it closed 5 separate issues when we added it) that currently is one of the least-supported JSON Schema keywords despite high demand.