About

JSON Schema Validation is an Plug-In for the Eclipse IDE that validates JSON files and shows error markers. Using the JSON Schema Validatior, it checks for syntactic and -- if a schema is present -- semantic errors in JSON files. It may be used together with the Eclipse JSON Editor.

The Plug-In looks for Schemas in the same directory as the data file having the same basename followed by Schema.json or .schema.json. E. g. when a BooksSchema.json is present, it will be taken as schema for a file named Books.json. If no such file exists, it looks for a file schema.json in the current directory.

The terms of the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 apply for distributing this software. See LICENSE.txt.

Requirements

Requires Eclipse Juno or later.

Usage

To activate JSON Validation, right click a project, and under Configure choose Add/Remove Json Validation Nature.

Limitations

• Does not recognize sub-schemas.

Building

Either of the following will generate a JAR file suitable to be placed into the dropins-folder of Eclipse for installatation.

Using Maven

Requires: Maven 3

You can run maven with mvn package to generate a JAR (in directory target) suitable to be placed into the dropins-folder of eclipse for installation.

Using Eclipse

Requires: Maven 3, Eclipse with Plug-In Development Tools (PDE) installed (Tested with "Juno" release and Java 7).

To copy the dependecies to /lib run this command in the project directory (containing pom.xml):

	mvn -P copylib package

The plug-in can now be built, packaged and ran by Eclipse. Export the project as Deployable Plug-Ins and Fragments to get a JAR-File.