Add details about updated memory management scheme to README

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Tristan Penman 2016-02-04 16:48:23 -08:00
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Note that Valijson's `SchemaParser` and `Validator` classes expect you to pass in a `RapidJsonAdapter` rather than a `rapidjson::Document`. This is due to the fact that `SchemaParser` and `Validator` are template classes that can be used with any of the JSON parsers supported by Valijson.
## Memory Management ##
Valijson has been designed to safely manage, and eventually free, the memory that is allocated while parsing a schema or validating a document. When working with an externally loaded schema (i.e. one that is populated using the `SchemaParser` class) you can rely on RAII semantics.
Things get more interesting when you build a schema using custom code, as illustrated in the following snippet. This code demonstrates how you would create a schema to verify that the value of a 'description' property (if present) is always a string:
{
// Root schema object that manages memory allocated for
// constraints or sub-schemas
Schema schema;
// Allocating memory for a sub-schema returns a const pointer
// which allows inspection but not mutation. This memory will be
// freed only when the root schema goes out of scope
const Subschema *subschema = schema.createSubschema();
{ // Limited scope, for example purposes
// Construct a constraint on the stack
TypeConstraint typeConstraint;
typeConstraint.addNamedType(TypeConstraint::kString);
// Constraints are added to a sub-schema via the root schema,
// which will make a copy of the constraint
schema.addConstraintToSubschema(typeConstraint, subschema);
// Constraint on the stack goes out of scope, but the copy
// held by the root schema continues to exist
}
// Include subschema in properties constraint
PropertiesConstraint propertiesConstraint;
propertiesConstraint.addPropertySubschema("description", subschema);
// Add the properties constraint
schema.addConstraint(propertiesConstraint);
// Root schema goes out of scope and all allocated memory is freed
}
## Test Suite ##
Valijson's' test suite currently contains several hand-crafted tests and uses the standard [JSON Schema Test Suite](https://github.com/json-schema/JSON-Schema-Test-Suite) to test support for parts of the JSON Schema feature set that have been implemented.