Add feature validation at configuration time

[jxramos]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I think it would be a nice convenience to allow users to populate some kind of optional schema if they so choose. Currently we do in application config validation at runtime per each read of the flagsmith value. If we could shift that validation left from runtime to config time that would be beneficial I feel.

Describe the solution you'd like.

Basically introduce another text box field to accept a json schema of some kind (ie https://json-schema.org) that gets enforced by the flagsmith UI before accepting a user's input. So going one step above markup validity and getting into domain specific validity is the idea.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Doing the current workflow of validating in app at runtime.

Additional context

No response

[jxramos]

It seems like the team is aware of the technology looking at #5766 (comment). Integrating that stuff into the front end would be very nice, it could even be just purely client side execution for applying the validation enforcement https://json-schema.org/blog/posts/get-started-with-json-schema-in-node-js

[matthewelwell]

Hi, thanks for raising this @jxramos, but we already have an issue for this here - I'll close this as a duplicate but feel free to add additional context to the existing issue if you'd like to.

[jxramos]

oh boy I see what I did, I was searching for "jsonschema" as one word which landed on two issues. @matthewelwell thank you for linking the issues, that #3457 is indeed the existing issue. I'll subscribe to that one, thank you kindly.