Problem: Rapid JSON is outdated and slow (#2470)

Solution: Use the last version of Rapid JSON.

bigchaindb/common/schema/__init__.py

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import logging
 import jsonschema
 import yaml
 import rapidjson
-import rapidjson_schema
 
 from bigchaindb.common.exceptions import SchemaValidationError
 
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ def _load_schema(name, path=__file__):
     path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(path), name + '.yaml')
     with open(path) as handle:
         schema = yaml.safe_load(handle)
-    fast_schema = rapidjson_schema.loads(rapidjson.dumps(schema))
+    fast_schema = rapidjson.Validator(rapidjson.dumps(schema))
     return path, (schema, fast_schema)
 
 
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ def _validate_schema(schema, body):
     # a helpful error message.
 
     try:
-        schema[1].validate(rapidjson.dumps(body))
+        schema[1](rapidjson.dumps(body))
     except ValueError as exc:
         try:
             jsonschema.validate(body, schema[0])

setup.py

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ install_requires = [
     'pymongo~=3.6',
     'pysha3~=1.0.2',
     'cryptoconditions~=0.6.0.dev',
-    'python-rapidjson==0.0.11',
+    'python-rapidjson~=0.6.0',
     'logstats~=0.2.1',
     'flask>=0.10.1',
     'flask-cors~=3.0.0',
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ install_requires = [
     'jsonschema~=2.5.1',
     'pyyaml~=3.12',
     'aiohttp~=3.0',
-    'python-rapidjson-schema==0.1.1',
     'bigchaindb-abci==0.5.1',
     'setproctitle~=1.1.0',
 ]