JSON schema compiler can't handle strings as types

chrome/common/extensions/api/experimental.fontSettings.json

Index: chrome/common/extensions/api/experimental.fontSettings.json
diff --git a/chrome/common/extensions/api/experimental.fontSettings.json b/chrome/common/extensions/api/experimental.fontSettings.json
index 689fb447b46d415003b394cfc7bcd8effe9e3af4..de7e6c527f2eef0d28975cb80319c58651f31f77 100644
--- a/chrome/common/extensions/api/experimental.fontSettings.json
+++ b/chrome/common/extensions/api/experimental.fontSettings.json
@@ -166,7 +166,8 @@
             "name": "details",
             "type": "object",
             "optional": true,
-            "description": "This parameter is currently unused."
+            "description": "This parameter is currently unused.",
+            "properties": {}

[Yoyo Zhou, 2012/05/01 00:21:58]

Why are these added?

[cduvall, 2012/05/01 00:31:51]

I added these so the schema compiler doesn't complain about the object not
having any properties or functions. It wouldn't generate the file without them.

           },
           {
             "type": "function",
@@ -184,7 +185,8 @@
             "name": "details",
             "type": "object",
             "optional": true,
-            "description": "This parameter is currently unused."
+            "description": "This parameter is currently unused.",
+            "properties": {}
           },
           {
             "name": "callback",
@@ -235,7 +237,8 @@
             "name": "details",
             "type": "object",
             "optional": true,
-            "description": "This parameter is currently unused."
+            "description": "This parameter is currently unused.",
+            "properties": {}
           },
           {
             "type": "function",
@@ -253,7 +256,8 @@
             "name": "details",
             "type": "object",
             "optional": true,
-            "description": "This parameter is currently unused."
+            "description": "This parameter is currently unused.",
+            "properties": {}
           },
           {
             "name": "callback",
@@ -304,7 +308,8 @@
             "name": "details",
             "type": "object",
             "optional": true,
-            "description": "This parameter is currently unused."
+            "description": "This parameter is currently unused.",
+            "properties": {}
           },
           {
             "type": "function",
@@ -322,7 +327,8 @@
             "name": "details",
             "type": "object",
             "optional": true,
-            "description": "This parameter is currently unused."
+            "description": "This parameter is currently unused.",
+            "properties": {}
           },
           {
             "name": "callback",
@@ -373,7 +379,8 @@
             "name": "details",
             "type": "object",
             "optional": true,
-            "description": "This parameter is currently unused."
+            "description": "This parameter is currently unused.",
+            "properties": {}
           },
           {
             "type": "function",
@@ -391,7 +398,8 @@
             "name": "details",
             "type": "object",
             "optional": true,
-            "description": "This parameter is currently unused."
+            "description": "This parameter is currently unused.",
+            "properties": {}
           },
           {
             "name": "callback",