Using Zod to validate a single field of an object from an open api schema

[ballcoach12]

I'd like to know if it's feasible to use Zod to validate a proposed value for a property that is defined in an Open API schema. An example would be, given the following schema definition:

"Device": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "id": {
                      "$ref": "#/components/schemas/UUID"
                    },
                    "version": {
                      "type": "integer",
                      "description": "the version of the device"
                    },
                    "displayName": {
                      "$ref": "#/components/schemas/DeviceName"
                    },
                    "attributes": {
                      "description": "map of name-value pairs",
                      "type": "object",
                      "additionalProperties": true
                    },
                    "labels": {
                      "type": "array",
                      "items": {
                        "type": "string"
                      },
                      "description": "set of labels"
                    }
                  }
                }

I want to return true/false for a proposed string value for the id field.

To do this, I would imagine that I need to take the following steps:

1. Convert my open api schema to a zod schema for the Device object without having to know the Zod schema up front
2. Be able to call something like schema.parse('id':<proposed_value>)

My questions are:

1. Is there a way to easily convert an Open API schema to a Zod schema without hand coding the Zod schema.
2. Can I parse an individual field as show in item 2 above, given that other properties of the object are required?
3. Is there a different way of doing this that is better than my proposal?

Thanks