JSONSchema

JSON instance validation using JSON Schemas

Overview

JSONSchema.jl is a JSON validation package for the julia programming language. Given a validation Schema (see http://json-schema.org/specification.html) this package can verify if any JSON instance follows all the assertions defining a valid document.

This package has been validated with the test suite of the JSON Schema org (https://github.com/json-schema-org/JSON-Schema-Test-Suite) for draft v4 and v6.

API

First step is to create a Schema object :

# using a String as input
myschema = Schema("""
 {
    "properties": {
       "foo": {},
       "bar": {}
    },
    "required": ["foo"]
 }""")  

# or using a pre-processed JSON as input, using the JSON package
sch = JSON.parsefile(filepath)
myschema = Schema(sch)

You can then check the validity of a given JSON instance by calling isvalid with the JSON instance to be tested and the Schema:

isvalid( JSON.parse("{ "foo": true }"), myschema) # true
isvalid( JSON.parse("{ "bar": 12.5 }"), myschema) # false

The JSON instance should be provided as a pre-processed JSON object created with the JSON package.

Should you need a diagnostic message to understand the cause of rejection you can use the diagnose() function. diagnose() will either return nothing if the instance is valid or a message detailing which assertion failed.

diagnose( JSON.parse("{ "foo": true }") , myschema)
# nothing
diagnose( JSON.parse("{ "bar": 12.5 }") , myschema)
# "in [] : required property 'foo' missing"