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I'm trying out the new schema in gmail feature. This is the json-ld format I embedded into my email message. 

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "schema.org",
  "@type": "CreativeWork",
  "action": {
    "@type": "ViewAction",
    "url": "https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/testing-your-schema",
    "name": "Open link"
  }
}
</script>

I tried to validate it using the tools here: https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/testing-your-schema and it doesn't seem to like what I have got there. Here are the two errors I had:

  • The property action cannot be used with the CreativeWork type
  • Unknown type ViewAction

I understand that 'action' is not an officially supported property as defined in http://schema.org/CreativeWork but I'm not sure whether it's some kind of problem with my json-ld data or it's just that the validation tool hasn't been updated to include the new properties yet.

Are there anyone who can comment on this?

mate64
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The validator warns directly above it that it is still in alpha.

Claudio Cherubino in a reply on the introduction post on the GApps Developer Blog states

the validator is still in alpha and not all the new things we introduced are already supported. Please bear with us a little more while we add them.

Some of Google's own examples don't correctly validate yet.

ZackBoe
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    That's correct, the tool doesn't support all new types yet, but it can still be used to check what properties are extracted from the markup – Claudio Cherubino May 17 '13 at 04:46