feat: add basic support for example tag

src/AnnotationsReader/ExtendedAnnotationsReader.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import json5 from "json5";
 import ts from "typescript";
 import { Annotations } from "../Type/AnnotatedType";
 import { symbolAtNode } from "../Utils/symbolAtNode";
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ export class ExtendedAnnotationsReader extends BasicAnnotationsReader {
         const annotations: Annotations = {
             ...this.getDescriptionAnnotation(node),
             ...this.getTypeAnnotation(node),
+            ...this.getExampleAnnotation(node),
             ...super.getAnnotations(node),
         };
         return Object.keys(annotations).length ? annotations : undefined;
@@ -70,4 +72,37 @@ export class ExtendedAnnotationsReader extends BasicAnnotationsReader {
         const text = (jsDocTag.text ?? []).map((part) => part.text).join("");
         return { type: text };
     }
+    /**
+     * Attempts to gather examples from the @-example jsdoc tag.
+     * See https://tsdoc.org/pages/tags/example/
+     */
+    private getExampleAnnotation(node: ts.Node): Annotations | undefined {
+        const symbol = symbolAtNode(node);
+        if (!symbol) {
+            return undefined;
+        }
+
+        const jsDocTags: ts.JSDocTagInfo[] = symbol.getJsDocTags();
+        if (!jsDocTags || !jsDocTags.length) {
+            return undefined;
+        }
+
+        const examples: unknown[] = [];
+        for (const example of jsDocTags.filter((tag) => tag.name === "example")) {
+            const text = (example.text ?? []).map((part) => part.text).join("");
+            try {
+                examples.push(json5.parse(text));
+            } catch (e) {
+                // ignore examples which don't parse to valid JSON
+                // This could be improved to support a broader range of usages,
+                // such as if the example has a title (as explained in the tsdoc spec).
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (examples.length === 0) {
+            return undefined;
+        }
+
+        return { examples };
+    }
 }

test/valid-data-annotations.test.ts

@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ describe("valid-data-annotations", () => {
 
     it("annotation-comment", assertValidSchema("annotation-comment", "MyObject", "extended"));
 
+    it("annotation-example", assertValidSchema("annotation-example", "MyObject", "extended"));
+
     it("annotation-id", assertValidSchema("annotation-id", "MyObject", "extended", [], "Test"));
 
     it("annotation-readOnly", assertValidSchema("annotation-readOnly", "MyObject", "basic"));

test/valid-data/annotation-example/main.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/**
+ * @example
+ * {
+ *     "nested": "hello"
+ * }
+ *
+ * @example An invalid example
+ * {
+ *     "nested": "world"
+ * }
+ * @example Another invalid example
+ * ```ts
+ * {
+ *     "nested": "world"
+ * }
+ * ```
+ */
+export interface MyObject {
+    /**
+     * @example
+     *     "Hello world"
+     * @example
+     *     "This string rocks"
+     */
+    nested: MyNestedObject
+}
+
+/**
+ * @example With a string
+ *      "Hello string"
+ */
+export type MyNestedObject = string;

test/valid-data/annotation-example/schema.json

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{
+  "$ref": "#/definitions/MyObject",
+  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+  "definitions": {
+    "MyNestedObject": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "MyObject": {
+      "examples": [
+        { "nested": "hello" }
+      ],
+      "additionalProperties": false,
+      "properties": {
+        "nested": {
+          "examples": [
+            "Hello world",
+            "This string rocks"
+          ],
+          "$ref": "#/definitions/MyNestedObject"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "nested"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    }
+  }
+}