ADF Schema Generator

This package provides a simple DSL (Domain Specific Language) for defining the schema, that can be transformed into multiple output formats that are required to work with ADF (Atlassian Document Format):

• ADF JSON Schema
• ProseMirror Schema
• Validator Specs

Usage

DSL

The package exports several functions that can be used to define the schema:

Nodes and Marks:

• adfNode – defines a new ADF node
• adfMark – defines a new ADF mark

Groups:

• adfNodeGroup – defines a new ADF node group
• adfMarkGroup – defines a new ADF mark group

Content Expressions:

• $or - Create a content expression that allows any of the specified content items
• $onePlus - Create a content expression that allows one or more of the specified content items
• $zeroPlus - Create a content expression that allows zero or more of the specified content items
• $range – Create a content expression that allows to limit number of children

Nodes and Variants:

There is quite often a need to define a slightly different version of the node. E.g.:

• A feature flag to enable/disable certain attributes on a node
• Stricter validation for a specific use case, like allowing certain marks on a top level node, and not allowing them on a nested variant of the same node.

Variants enable this use case.

Each variant shallowly overrides the base node spec. And then can be used via node.use('variant_name') method.

Adding new variant to a node definition doesn't, by default, affect the output schemas. The variant must be explicitly used in the schema definition via node.use('variant_name').

const paragraph = adfNode('paragraph')
  .define({
    group: blockGroup,
    content: [$zeroPlus($or(text))],
  })
  // Defines a variant of the node called 'with-attrs'
  .variant('with-attrs', {
    attrs: {
      alignment: {
        type: 'enum',
        values: ['start', 'end', 'center', 'justify'],
        default: 'start',
      },
    },
  });

// paragraphWithAttrs now references a new instance of the ADFNode with the 'with-attrs' variant applied.
const paragraphWithAttrs = paragraph.use('with-attrs');
const name = paragraphWithAttrs.getName(); // paragraph_with-attrs_node (name includes node type and variant name)

// Both base and a variant can be used in the schema definition, even as children of the same node:
const doc = adfNode('doc').define({
  root: true,
  content: [$onePlus($or(paragraph, paragraphWithAttrs))],
  //                                ^ Variant is explicitly used here
});

// This is similar to a union type in TypeScript, where you can have a type that is either one type or another.

Example

import {
  adfNode,
  adfMark,
  adfNodeGroup,
  $or,
  $onePlus,
  $zeroPlus,
} from '@atlaskit/adf-schema-generator';

const codeMark = adfMark('code').define();

const text = adfNode('text').define({
  marks: [codeMark],
});

const paragraph = adfNode('paragraph')
  .define({
    content: [$zeroPlus($or(text))],
  })
  .variant('with-attrs', {
    attrs: {
      alignment: {
        type: 'enum',
        values: ['start', 'end', 'center', 'justify'],
        default: 'start',
      },
    },
  });

const blockGroup = adfNodeGroup('block', [paragraph]);

const doc = adfNode('doc').define({
  root: true,
  content: [$onePlus($or(blockGroup))],
});

Stage 0

Stage 0 schema is an experimental super-set of the full schema. It is used to test new features and is not guaranteed to be stable.

There are 2 ways to define a stage 0 node.

1. Using inline stage0 node spec override:

Inline stage0 spec is a shallow override of the base node spec. Which will produce, for the following example, 2 PM node specs: paragraph and paragraphStage0.

const paragraph = adfNode('paragraph').define({
  content: [$zeroPlus($or(text))],
  stage0: {
    attrs: {
      alignment: {
        type: 'enum',
        values: ['start', 'end', 'center', 'justify'],
        default: 'start',
      },
    },
  },
});

Using inline stage0 override is a preferred way to modify/extend the node spec it simplifies future promotion to the full schema.

2. Marking the whole node as stage 0

Marking node as stage0: true will only output the stage 0 node spec. It will not appear in full json schema. Marking the whole node as stage0 is the preferred way to introduce new nodes to ADF schema.

const paragraph = adfNode('paragraph').define({
  content: [$zeroPlus($or(text))],
  stage0: true,
});

Traverse

The schema can be traversed to generate the output formats:

Traverse accepts a root node of the ADF DSL tree and a visitor object. Visitor is a pattern that is commonly used in tree traversal algorithms. It allows to separate the traversal logic from the actual processing logic.

import { traverse } from '@atlaskit/adf-schema-generator';

traverse(doc, {
  node: (node, variant, children) => {
    return node.type;
  },
  group: (group, children) => {
    return group.name;
  },
  $or: (children) => {
    return children.join(' | ');
  },
});

Terminology

• @DSLCompatibilityException: This annotation marks special cases made by transformers during DSL conversion that address temporary compatibility issues with specific target schemas. It serves as a tracking mechanism to identify, prioritize, and eliminate these exceptions as the DSL evolves to encompass these special cases.