Enhancement Request

OpenStudio includes the json-schema gem, but it is barely maintained and many users recommend switching to json_schemer gem. Not only is the json_schemer gem well maintained, but it supports newer drafts of the JSON schema that are heavily utilized these days. The json-schema gem has no current progress towards supporting newer drafts of the schema.

For DOE's Home Energy Score project, we are unable to use the current json-schema gem because it doesn't support JSON Schema draft-07. This means that we can't validate JSON files submitted and has occasionally led to issues.

(Perhaps OpenStudio should consider replacing the json-schema gem, but that would be a breaking change.)