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`array: null` for any shaped arrays not allowed
I believe we arrived at a place where this would represent an array with any shape:
classes:
MyClass:
attributes:
an_array:
range: int
array:
but currently the range of the array
slot is a non-nullable array_expression
: https://github.com/linkml/linkml-model/blob/e53a511e4e0fe7c403747f18de77553d42365feb/linkml_model/model/schema/meta.yaml#L1430
edit: wait obviously you can make metamodel attributes optional too my bad. i'll PR
Not sure how to express this in the schema, my first instinct would be something like this:
any_of:
- range: array_expression
- range: null
but I'm not sure if that's valid.
Another option to be able to differentiate between an explicit null like that and an any shaped array might be to make the syntax
array: Any
which would make the metamodel more straightforward:
any_of:
- range: array_expression
- range: Anything