Support artifact references

[EricWittmann]

A nice feature would be if the registry were to support references between schemas and API designs. Many of our supported formats have this capability, including:

• OpenAPI
• AsyncAPI
• Avro
• Protobuf?
• JSON Schema
• WSDL
• XSD

Each of these formats supports references in different ways. For example, WSDL files can reference XSDs and other WSDLs via imports and includes. OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema all support the $ref approach to referencing other files. So to support this feature we'll need to implement it in a artifactType agnostic way.

[tszappanos]

@EricWittmann ,do you have any idea when this requirement could be realized?

[EricWittmann]

I'm sorry no. This is something that needs discussion and design. If you have any suggestions about how it would work (especially any ideas that would apply generally to all supported types) that would be great. But for now we're not sure exactly what the specific requirements would be.