Example of a relationship definition for JSON Schema design

relationship.js

/*
  For this schema, each object's relationships are defined as an object under
  a "links" property.
  Each property of that object is the name of the relationship, and the value
  is  a single object with the "type" and "id" of the related object.
  For "to-many" relationships, the value can be an array of the same objects.
*/
var data = {
  "articles": [{
    "id": "article1",
    "links": {
      "author": {"id": "person1", "type": "people"}
    }
  }],
  "people": [{
    "id": "person1",
    "phoneNumber": "1234"
  }]
};

function getLink(data, object, linkName) {
  var link = object.links[linkName];
  if (link && data[link.type]) {
    return data[link.type].find(function(e) {return e.id === link.type;});
  }
}

getLink(data, data.articles[0], 'author').phoneNumber; // "1234"

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