Spectral Rules for Advanced Checking on Models

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Feature Request

Description of Problem:

JSON schema provides a significant amount of checking, but when we need referential constraints e.g. uniqueId defined in relationships it would be good to use an advanced linting tool.

Potential Solutions:

• Use Spectral to create a limited set of core rules that will allow us to identify any relationships that do not fall within constraints.
• Use Spectral to create rules that will check for where instantiated patterns have not replaced placeholder/default values

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@willosborne has a PoC of this to share

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Another feature we might want to add is to constrain the relationship type based on the nodes in the relationship. For example, and actor should be able to interact with a system or service. A system should not interact with another system, but instead connect

[willosborne]

This has been done for instantiations, but not patterns. Basic validations are run as part of the CI build, see issue #35
The full feature will be implemented as part of the CLI, see issue #73