Show string field as multiple choice without enum

[dafeder]

Prerequisites

• I have read the documentation;
• In the case of a bug report, I understand that providing a SSCCE example is tremendously useful to the maintainers.
• Ideally, I'm providing a sample JSFiddle or a shared playground link demonstrating the issue.

Description

I am wondering if there is an existing way to do this, or if this might be a good idea: I'm building a form around a schema that I don't own. Some of the fields in this existing schema are defined as open text fields, but I want to restrict the incoming values and present a multiple-choice "select" box. Can I do this entirely in the UI configuration? I realize it's a bit of an anti-pattern to hide validation rules in the UI, but there are benefits to my use-case in not forking the schema itself.

Expected behavior

I can define a ui:widget as "select" or "checkboxes" for a simple string fields, and define the available options in the ui configuration.

Actual behavior

A field must have enum values in the schema itself for a select box to be available as a form widget.

Version

Whatever the live playground is currently running? (1.8.1?)

[epicfaace]

You could define a custom widget that does this, which reads values from uiSchema["ui:options"]["enum"] and renders a dropdown. Maybe we could also add it to react-jsonschema-form.

We do support an autocomplete option with the examples keyword, if that's useful at all: #1517

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