Polyglottal JSON Schema Validator (Polyglottal Ajv)

Command line interface for ajv that utilizes any-json to provide validation against many data formats. pajv can validate: CSON, Hjson, JSON, JSON5, TOML, and YAML files using JSON Schema. pajv is a fork of ajv-cli.

Contents

• Installation
• Commands
  • Help
  • Validate data
  • Test validation result
• Ajv options
• Version History, License

Installation

npm install -g pajv

Help

pajv help
pajv help validate
pajv help test

Validate data

This command validates data files against JSON-schema

pajv validate -s test/schema.json -d test/valid_data.json
pajv -s test/schema.json -d test/valid_data.json

You can omit validate command name.

Parameters

-s - file name of JSON-schema

Only one schema can be passed in this parameter

-d - JSON data

Multiple data files can be passed, as in -r parameter:

pajv -s test/schema.json -d "test/valid*.json"

If some file is invalid exit code will be 1.

-r - referenced schemas

The schema in -s parameter can reference any of these schemas with $ref keyword.

Multiple schemas can be passed both by using this parameter mupltiple times and with glob patterns. Glob pattern should be quoted and extensions cannot be omitted.

-m - meta-schemas

Schemas can use any of these schemas as a meta-schema (that is the schema used in $schema keyword - it is used to validate the schema itself).

Multiple meta-schemas can be passed, as in -r parameter.

-c - custom keywords/formats definitions

You can pass module(s) that define custom keywords/formats. The modules should export a function that accepts Ajv instance as a parameter. The file name should start with ".", it will be resolved relative to the current folder. The package name can also be passed - it will be used in require as is.

For example, you can use -c ajv-keywords to add all keywords from ajv-keywords package or -c ajv-keywords/keywords/typeof to add only typeof keyword.

Options

• --errors=: error reporting format. Possible values:

  • js (default): JavaScript object
  • json: JSON with indentation and line-breaks
  • line: JSON without indentaion/line-breaks (for easy parsing)
  • text: human readable error messages with data paths

• --changes=: detect changes in data after validation.
  Data can be modifyed with Ajv options --remove-additional, --use-defaults and --coerce-types).
  The changes are reported in JSON-patch format (RFC6902).
  Possible values are js (default), json and line (see --errors option).

Test validation result

This command asserts that the result of the validation is as expected.

pajv test -s test/schema.json -d test/valid_data.json --valid
pajv test -s test/schema.json -d test/invalid_data.json --invalid

If the option --valid (--invalid) is used for the test to pass (exit code 0) the data file(s) should be valid (invalid).

This command supports the same options and parameters as validate with the exception of --changes.

Ajv options

You can pass the following Ajv options:

Option	Description
--data	use $data references
--all-errors	collect all errors
--unknown-formats=	handling of unknown formats
--verbose	include schema and data in errors
--json-pointers	report data paths in errors using JSON-pointers
--unique-items=false	do not validate uniqueItems keyword
--unicode=false	count unicode pairs as 2 characters
--format=full	format mode
--schema-id=	keyword(s) to use as schema ID
--extend-refs=	validation of other keywords when $ref is present in the schema
--missing-refs=	handle missing referenced schemas (true/ignore/fail)
--inline-refs=	referenced schemas compilation mode (true/false/<number>)
--remove-additional	remove additional properties (true/all/failing)
--use-defaults	replace missing properties/items with the values from default keyword
--coerce-types	change type of data to match type keyword
--multiple-of-precision	precision of multipleOf, pass integer number
--error-data-path=property	data path in errors
--messages=false	do not include text messages in errors

Options can be passed in either dash-case and camelCase.

See Ajv Options for more information.

Version History

See https://github.com/json-schema-everywhere/pajv/releases

Licence

MIT