Reusing schemas

Building Blocks can be reused in several ways:

• if creating a JSON schema based BuildingBlock then use the $ref: bblocks://{block id} to make a JSON schema reference to any building block in the import list see imports
• for other types of Building Blocks declare as an entry in the dependsOn element of a block.json metadata file
• cut and paste “ready to use” forms from the build/ directory of any building block repository into a some other form of application (not a reusable Building Block itself)
• directly reference the artefacts in the build directory using the URL pattern specified in the building block description (noting this may be affected by changes if a building block is moved from one register to another - bblocks:// references will still work if imports approach is used.)