All required properties should have "minLength": 1

[Brcrwilliams]

If a property is required, it should also not be an empty string. There are many places in the BOM schema where we use "required": [...] but do not also verify that these properties have "minLength": 1.

An example is .components[].name:

specification/schema/bom-1.6.schema.json

Line 831 in 8e131b1

"name"

It may be that optional properties should have this constraint as well. Consider the following example:

{
  "type": "library",
  "name": "whatever",
  "version": ""
}

If whatever does not have a version, it would be more clear if that key were to be omitted rather than provided as an empty string.

[stevespringett]

Thanks @Brcrwilliams. We'll add this to the 2.0 backlog.