Record & Schema Classes

[crobinson42]

The Record class is invoked to create a record instance, ie: recordInstance = store.add({ ... }). One of the limitations with v3 Record class is that it's not easily extended or changed to meet the needs of custom applications. One of these issues is the inability to do this on a record: JSON.stringify(record) and requires the method call record.toJSON() instead.

The Schema class is used on a Record instance to perform validations when the Mapper has a defined schema. https://www.js-data.io/docs/validation#section-defining-a-schema
The concerns with Schema:

• It's an old json-schema hand-rolled spec (v4 json-schema)
• It lacks the ability to easily extend custom validation logic (ie: Joi or AJV libs)