Recently, while looking for ways to improve Schemathesis' test suite I found an old issue titled "Test with generated schemas". The idea is to generate random Open API specs and verify that Schemathesis does not fail with internal errors, to ensure it will work with a wider range of real-life API schemas.

Initially, I considered using hypothesis-jsonschema with Open API's official meta schemas. However, this approach was hindered by a limitation in the current hypothesis-jsonschema implementation: its lack of support for recursive references, which are common in Open API specs.

This article explores an alternative approach to generating valid Open API specs by leveraging Hypothesis' from_type and abusing Python's "typing" module. In the following sections, we will go through the implementation details, challenges faced, and potential future improvements.

If you develop a tool that works with Open API specs, you may find useful ideas for enhancing your tool's test suite and improving its resilience.

Schemathesis is a powerful tool for testing web applications built with Open API and GraphQL specifications. The prototype described in the article immediately found a bug in it.

Linked lists are taught as fundamental data structures in programming courses, but they are more commonly encountered in tech interviews than in real-world projects.

In this post, I'll demonstrate a practical use case where a linked list significantly outperforms Vec. We will build a simple data validation library that shows the exact error location within invalid input, showcasing how a linked list can be used in graph traversals.

This post mostly reflects my own exploration and mistakes in the jsonschema crates and therefore does not aim to provide a complete guide to linked lists but rather to present an idea of how they can be used in practice.

Starting with a naive approach, we’ll progressively implement various optimizations and observe their impact on performance.

Readers are expected to have a basic understanding of Rust, common data structures, and the concept of memory allocations (stack vs. heap).

UPDATE (2024-05-14): Given the feedback I emphasized what ideas are objectively bad, clarified some sidenotes, and removed the imbl idea.

To follow along with the implementation steps and explore the code, check out the accompanying repository