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boolean¶

The boolean type matches only two special values: true and false. Note that values that evaluate to true or false, such as 1 and 0, are not accepted by the schema.

Language-specific info:

Python

Ruby

In Python, "boolean" is analogous to bool. Note that in JSON, true and false are lower case, whereas in Python they are capitalized (True and False).

schema

1
{ "type": "boolean" }

data

1
true

compliant to schema

data

1
false

compliant to schema

data

1
"true"

not compliant to schema

Values that evaluate to true or false are still not accepted by the schema:

data

1
0

not compliant to schema

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