readOnly : Boolean

readOnly

Boolean

This keyword indicates that the value of the instance is managed exclusively by the owning authority, and attempts by an application to modify the value of this property are expected to be ignored or rejected by that owning authority.

Kind	Annotation
Applies To	Any
Dialect	2020-12
Introduced In	Draft 7
Vocabulary	Meta Data
Specification	https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/json-schema-validation.html#section-9.4
Metaschema	https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/meta/meta-data
Also see	writeOnly (Vocabulary: Meta-Data) title (Vocabulary: Meta-Data) description (Vocabulary: Meta-Data) examples (Vocabulary: Meta-Data) default (Vocabulary: Meta-Data) deprecated (Vocabulary: Meta-Data)

Annotations

This keyword produces the annotation value true if the keyword is set to true, or false otherwise.

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