{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/async-apis/refs/heads/main/json-schema/asyncapi-message-schema.json",
  "title": "AsyncAPI Message",
  "description": "An AsyncAPI Message — describes the data flowing over a channel: headers, payload, content type, correlation id, examples, and protocol-specific message bindings.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "messageId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Unique identifier for the message inside the document. Required when referenced from outside an inline definition."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Machine-friendly name of the message. Used in code generation."
    },
    "title": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Human-readable title."
    },
    "summary": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "description": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "contentType": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "MIME type of the payload. Overrides defaultContentType.",
      "examples": ["application/json", "application/cloudevents+json", "application/avro", "application/protobuf"]
    },
    "schemaFormat": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Schema format identifier for the payload. Defaults to AsyncAPI's own subset of JSON Schema.",
      "examples": [
        "application/vnd.aai.asyncapi+json;version=3.0.0",
        "application/schema+json;version=draft-07",
        "application/vnd.apache.avro;version=1.9.0",
        "application/vnd.google.protobuf;version=3"
      ]
    },
    "headers": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Schema describing the message headers (Kafka headers, AMQP properties, MQTT user properties)."
    },
    "payload": {
      "description": "Schema describing the message payload. Format determined by schemaFormat."
    },
    "correlationId": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Correlation ID definition — a JSONPath/runtime expression pointing to a value in the message used to correlate request and reply."
    },
    "tags": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {"type": "object"}
    },
    "externalDocs": {
      "type": "object"
    },
    "bindings": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Protocol-specific message bindings (kafka key, mqtt retain, amqp delivery mode, etc.).",
      "properties": {
        "kafka": {"type": "object"},
        "mqtt": {"type": "object"},
        "amqp": {"type": "object"},
        "ws": {"type": "object"},
        "http": {"type": "object"},
        "jms": {"type": "object"}
      }
    },
    "examples": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Array of example message values for documentation, mocking, and contract testing.",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": {"type": "string"},
          "summary": {"type": "string"},
          "headers": {"type": "object"},
          "payload": {}
        }
      }
    },
    "traits": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "List of message traits merged into the message.",
      "items": {"type": "object"}
    }
  }
}