JSON-LD 1.1 issue with test for overriding protected terms in property-scoped context

json-ld-issue-reset-protected-term.md

Test tpr19 includes a property-scoped context that includes a null value:

    "protected2": {
      "@id": "ex:protected2",
      "@context": [
        null,
        {
          "protected1": "ex:protected3"
        }
      ]
    },

When Context Processing is called during expansion of the "protected2" key, why does the first (null) context value here not trigger the error condition in Context Processing step 5.1.1?

5 For each item context in local context:

5.1 If context is null:

5.1.1 If override protected is false and active context contains any protected term definitions, an invalid context nullification has been detected and processing is aborted.

This seems to impact tests tpr06, tpr14, tpr15, tpr16, tpr19.

The design is that property scoped contexts can null out protected contexts, which was the result of some considerable WG discussions.

This is supported by step 6 of the expansion algorithm passing true for override protected, which allows this behavior.

Issue 90 (w3c/json-ld-api#90) should shed some light on the reasoning.

@gkellogg – The step 6 you seem to be referring to is in the compaction algorithm. I can't figure out if there is something similar in the expansion algorithm.

There doesn't seem to by any use of the string "override protected" in the expansion algorithm.

Looks like that parameter is missing from step 8 of the expansion algorithm.

It should say the following:

If property-scoped context is defined, set active context to the result of the Context Processing algorithm, passing active context property-scoped context as local context, and true for override protected.

@gkellogg yes, that seems right, and fixes the tests.

@gkellogg do you want me to file an issue for this?

Yes, that will keep the provenance correct. Otherwise, I could update it, but in this case it's better to have an issue to track it to.

w3c/json-ld-api#301