This repository contains a JSON Schema. This validator runs as a standalone node server that receives validation requests and gives back it's results. The validation is done using the AJV library version ^6.0.0 that fully supports the JSON Schema draft-07.
Latest released version available here.
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
To be able to run this project you'll need to have Node.js and npm installed in your machine. npm is distributed with Node.js which means that when you download Node.js, you automatically get npm installed on your computer.
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Get Node.js: https://nodejs.org/en/ (v8.11.1 LTS)
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If you use Homebrew you can install node by doing:
brew install node
After installation check that everything is correctly installed and which versions you are running:
node -v
npm -v
Clone project and install dependencies:
git clone https://github.com/fpenim/json-schema-validator.git
cd json-schema-validator
npm install
npm test
node src/server
The node server will run on port 3020 and will expose one endpoint: /validate.
- logPath
If provided with a log path argument, the application will write the logs to a file on the specified directory with a 24h rotation. To provide the log path add a logPath
property after the startup statement:
node src/server --logPath=/log/directory/path
- pidPath
If provided with a pid file path argument, the application will write the pid into the specified file. If no pid file argument is provided, the application will still create a pid file on the default path: ./server.pid
.
To provide the pid file path add a pidPath
property after the startup statement:
node src/server --pidPath=/pid/file/path/server.pid
Note: This is the file path and not just the directory it will be written to.
- Build docker image:
docker build -t subs/json-schema-validator .
- Run docker image:
docker run -p 3020:3020 -d subs/json-schema-validator
For development purposes using nodemon is useful. It reloads the application everytime something has changed on save time.
nodemon src/server
This validator exposes one endpoint that accepts POST
requests.
This endpoint expects the body to have the following structure:
{
"schemas": [],
"entity": {},
"rootSchemaId": ""
}
Where the schemas should contain at least one valid json schema to validate the entity against. Multiple schemas may be provided when these reference each other using the keyword "$ref"
. When this is the case, the "$id"
of the primary/root schema must also be provided.
Single schema example:
{
"schemas": [
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"foo": { "type": "string" },
"bar": { "type": "integer" },
"zed": { "type": "boolean" }
}
}
],
"entity": {
"foo": "abc",
"bar": 123,
"zed": true
}
}
Multiple schemas example:
{
"schemas": [
{
"$id": "http://example.com/schemas/schema.json",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"foo": { "$ref": "defs.json#/definitions/int" },
"bar": { "$ref": "definitions.json#/definitions/str" },
"abc": { "$ref": "defs.json#/definitions/array" }
},
"required": ["foo"]
},
{
"$id": "http://example.com/schemas/defs.json",
"definitions": {
"int": { "type": "integer" },
"array": { "$ref": "definitions.json#/definitions/nextarray" }
}
},
{
"$id": "http://example.com/schemas/definitions.json",
"definitions": {
"str": { "type": "string" },
"nextarray": { "type": "string" }
}
}
],
"rootSchemaId": "http://example.com/schemas/schema.json",
"entity": {
"foo": 3,
"abc": ""
}
}
Response with no validation errors:
HTTP status code 200
[]
An example of a validation response with errors:
HTTP status code 200
[
{
"errors": [
"should have required property 'value'"
],
"dataPath": ".attributes['age'][0].value"
},
{
"errors": [
"should NOT be shorter than 1 characters",
"should match format \"uri\""
],
"dataPath": ".attributes['breed'][0].terms[0].url"
}
]
Where errors is an array of error messages for a given input identified by its path on dataPath. There may be one or more error objects within the response array. An empty array represents a valid validation result.
Sending malformed JSON or a body with either the schema or the submittable missing will result in an API error (the request will not reach the validation).
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When sending malformed JSON:
HTTP status code
400
- Bad Request{ "errors": "Malformed JSON please check your request body." }
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When any of the required body values is missing:
HTTP status code
422
- Unprocessable Entity{ "errors": { "schema": { "location": "body", "param": "schema", "msg": "Required." }, "object": { "location": "body", "param": "object", "msg": "Required." } } }
The AJV library supports the implementation of custom json schema keywords to address validation scenarios that go beyond what json schema can handle.
Two example custom keywords implementations are available under examples/custom-keywords
, these are isChildTermOf
and isValidTerm
. For more details see the documentation on CUSTOM KEYWORDS.
For more details about licensing see the LICENSE.