1JSON::Validator(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation JSON::Validator(3)
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6 JSON::Validator - Validate data against a JSON schema
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9 Using a schema object
10 JSON::Validator::Schema or any of the sub classes can be used instead
11 of JSON::Validator. The only reason to use JSON::Validator directly is
12 if you don't know the schema version up front.
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14 Basics
15 use JSON::Validator;
16 my $jv = JSON::Validator->new;
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18 # Define a schema - http://json-schema.org/learn/miscellaneous-examples.html
19 # You can also load schema from disk or web
20 $jv->schema({
21 type => "object",
22 required => ["firstName", "lastName"],
23 properties => {
24 firstName => {type => "string"},
25 lastName => {type => "string"},
26 age => {type => "integer", minimum => 0, description => "Age in years"}
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30 # Validate your data
31 my @errors = $jv->validate({firstName => "Jan Henning", lastName => "Thorsen", age => -42});
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33 # Do something if any errors was found
34 die "@errors" if @errors;
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36 Using joi
37 # Use joi() to build the schema
38 use JSON::Validator::Joi 'joi';
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40 $jv->schema(joi->object->props({
41 firstName => joi->string->required,
42 lastName => joi->string->required,
43 age => joi->integer->min(0),
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46 # joi() can also validate directly
47 my @errors = joi(
48 {firstName => "Jan Henning", lastName => "Thorsen", age => -42},
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50 firstName => joi->string->required,
51 lastName => joi->string->required,
52 age => joi->integer->min(0),
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57 JSON::Validator is a data structure validation library based around
58 JSON Schema <https://json-schema.org/>. This module can be used
59 directly with a JSON schema or you can use the elegant DSL schema-
60 builder JSON::Validator::Joi to define the schema programmatically.
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62 Supported schema formats
63 JSON::Validator can load JSON schemas in multiple formats: Plain perl
64 data structured (as shown in "SYNOPSIS"), JSON or YAML. The JSON
65 parsing is done with Mojo::JSON, while YAML files requires YAML::PP or
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68 Resources
69 Here are some resources that are related to JSON schemas and
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72 • <http://json-schema.org/documentation.html>
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74 • <https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/index.html>
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76 • <https://github.com/json-schema/json-schema/>
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78 Bundled specifications
79 This module comes with some JSON specifications bundled, so your
80 application don't have to fetch those from the web. These
81 specifications should be up to date, but please submit an issue if they
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84 Files referenced to an URL will automatically be cached if the first
85 element in "cache_paths" is a writable directory. Note that the cache
86 headers for the remote assets are not honored, so you will manually
87 need to remove any cached file, should you need to refresh them.
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89 To download and cache an online asset, do this:
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91 JSON_VALIDATOR_CACHE_PATH=/some/writable/directory perl myapp.pl
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95 • JSON schema, draft 4, 6, 7, 2019-09.
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97 Web page: <http://json-schema.org>
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99 $ref: <http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#>,
100 <http://json-schema.org/draft-06/schema#>,
101 <http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#>.
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103 • JSON schema for JSONPatch files
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105 Web page: <http://jsonpatch.com>
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107 $ref: <http://json.schemastore.org/json-patch#>
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109 • Swagger / OpenAPI specification, version 2
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111 Web page: <https://openapis.org>
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113 $ref: <http://swagger.io/v2/schema.json#>
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117 Web page: <https://openapis.org>
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119 $ref: https://spec.openapis.org/oas/3.0/schema/2019-04-02
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121 Specification/blob/master/schemas/v3.0/schema.json>
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123 This specification is still EXPERIMENTAL.
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125 • Swagger Petstore
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127 This is used for unit tests, and should not be relied on by external
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130 Optional modules
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133 Installing Sereal::Encoder v4.00 (or later) will make "data_checksum"
134 in JSON::Validator::Util significantly faster. This function is used
135 both when parsing schemas and validating data.
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137 • Format validators
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139 See the documentation in JSON::Validator::Formats for other optional
140 modules to do validation of specific "format", such as "hostname",
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145 Proxy attribute for "cache_paths" in JSON::Validator::Store.
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148 This attribute will be used as default value for "formats" in
149 JSON::Validator::Schema. It is highly recommended to change this
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152 $jv->formats(...); # Legacy
153 $jv->schema->formats(...); # Recommended way
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155 recursive_data_protection
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157 "recursive_data_protection" in JSON::Validator::Schema. It is highly
158 recommended to change this directly on the "schema" instead:
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160 $jv->recursive_data_protection(...); # Legacy
161 $jv->schema->recursive_data_protection(...); # Recommended way
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164 $store = $jv->store;
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166 Holds a JSON::Validator::Store object that caches the retrieved
167 schemas. This object will be shared amongst different "schema" objects
168 to prevent a schema from having to be downloaded again.
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171 Proxy attribute for "ua" in JSON::Validator::Store.
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175 This method can be used to get a bundled version of "schema". It will
176 however return a data-structure instead of a new object. See "bundle"
177 in JSON::Validator::Schema for an alternative.
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179 # These two lines does the same
180 $data = $jv->bundle;
181 $data = $jv->schema->bundle->data;
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183 # Recommended way
184 $schema = $jv->schema->bundle;
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186 coerce
187 This attribute will be used as default value for "coerce" in
188 JSON::Validator::Schema. It is highly recommended to change this
189 directly on the "schema" instead:
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191 $jv->coerce(...); # Legacy
192 $jv->schema->coerce(...); # Recommended way
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194 get
195 Proxy method for "get" in JSON::Validator::Schema.
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198 $jv = JSON::Validator->new(%attributes);
199 $jv = JSON::Validator->new(\%attributes);
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201 Creates a new JSON::Validate object.
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203 load_and_validate_schema
204 This method will be deprecated in the future. See "errors" in
205 JSON::Validator::Schema and "is_invalid" in JSON::Validator::Schema
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208 schema
209 $jv = $jv->schema($json_or_yaml_string);
210 $jv = $jv->schema($url);
211 $jv = $jv->schema(\%schema);
212 $jv = $jv->schema(JSON::Validator::Joi->new);
213 $jv = $jv->schema(JSON::Validator::Schema->new);
214 $schema = $jv->schema;
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216 Used to set a schema from either a data structure or a URL.
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218 $schema will be an instance of JSON::Validator::Schema::Draft4,
219 JSON::Validator::Schema::Draft6 JSON::Validator::Schema::Draft7,
220 JSON::Validator::Schema::Draft201909,
221 JSON::Validator::Schema::OpenAPIv2, JSON::Validator::Schema::OpenAPIv3
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224 The $url can take many forms, but needs to point to a text file in the
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229 A file on disk. Note that it is required to use the "file" scheme
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234 A web resource will be fetched using the Mojo::UserAgent, stored in
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239 Will load a given "spec.json" file from "Some::Module" using
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244 A "data" URL without a module name will use the current package and
245 search up the call/inheritance tree.
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249 An URL (without a recognized scheme) will be treated as a path to a
250 file on disk. If the file could not be found on disk and the path
251 starts with "/", then the will be loaded from the app defined in
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258 Proxy method for "validate" in JSON::Validator::Schema.
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263 JSON::Validator::Formats contains utility functions for validating
264 data types. Could be useful for validating data without loading a
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267 • JSON::Validator::Schema
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269 JSON::Validator::Schema is the base class for
270 JSON::Validator::Schema::Draft4, JSON::Validator::Schema::Draft6
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272 JSON::Validator::Schema::Draft201909,
273 JSON::Validator::Schema::OpenAPIv2 or
274 JSON::Validator::Schema::OpenAPIv3.
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278 JSON::Validator::Util contains many useful function when working with
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283 Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI is a plugin for Mojolicious that utilize
284 JSON::Validator and the OpenAPI specification
285 <https://www.openapis.org/> to build routes with input and output
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289 Copyright (C) 2014-2021, Jan Henning Thorsen
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291 This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it
292 under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.
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295 Project Founder
296 Jan Henning Thorsen - "jhthorsen@cpan.org"
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298 Contributors
299 • Aleksandr Orlenko
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301 • Alexander Hartmaier
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303 • Alexander Karelas
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305 • Bernhard Graf
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307 • Brad Barden
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309 • Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
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311 • Daniel Böhmer
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313 • David Cantrell
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317 • Ere Maijala
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319 • Fabrizio Gennari
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321 • Ilya Rassadin
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323 • Jason Cooper
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325 • Karen Etheridge
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327 • Kenichi Ishigaki
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329 • Kevin M. Goess
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331 • Kirill Matusov
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333 • Krasimir Berov
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335 • Lari Taskula
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337 • Lee Johnson
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339 • Martin Renvoize
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341 • Mattias Päivärinta
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343 • Michael Jemmeson
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345 • Michael Schout
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351 • Pierre-Aymeric Masse
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353 • Roy Storey
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355 • Russell Jenkins
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357 • Sebastian Riedel
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359 • Stephan Hradek
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361 • Tim Stallard
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363 • Zoffix Znet
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