Github user xccui commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5491#discussion_r168446783
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flink-formats/flink-json/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/formats/json/JsonSchemaConverter.java
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+
+package org.apache.flink.formats.json;
+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation;
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.Types;
+import org.apache.flink.types.Row;
+import org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions;
+
+import
org.apache.flink.shaded.jackson2.com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
+import
org.apache.flink.shaded.jackson2.com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import
org.apache.flink.shaded.jackson2.com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Optional;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * Converts a JSON schema into Flink's type information. It uses {@link
Row} for representing
+ * objects and tuple arrays.
+ *
+ * <p>Note: This converter implements just a subset of the JSON schema
specification.
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It seems that the JSON Schema is still evolving. Shall we consider
specifying a version for that?
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