Validation for JSKOS data.
This repository contains tools for validating JSKOS data.
You will unlikely need to directly install jskos-validate. Better use a client such as jskos-cli instead!
Install as dependency to your node project (requires at least NodeJS 18):
npm install --save jskos-validate
Or clone the current version for development:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/gbv/jskos-validate.git
cd jskos-validate
npm install
This module provides validation methods for each JSKOS object type based on JSON Schemas and additional constraints.
const validate = require("jskos-validate")
let concept = { ... }
validate.concept(concept) // returns true or false
validate(concept) // same if concept contains type field
let mapping = { ... }
validate.mapping(mapping) // returns true or false
validate(mapping) // same if mapping contains type field
// ...
See npm module jskos-cli for a command line interface to JSKOS validation.
Setting the option unknownFields
to a truthy value will not complain about additional fields. This is useful for instance to validate JSKOS data with newly introduced fields with an old schema.
const validate = require("jskos-validate")
validate(data, { unknownFields: true })
Option schemes
can be set to an array of JSKOS Concept Schemes to be looked up by their URI in field inScheme
of a concept. Scheme fields namespace
, uriPattern
and notationPattern
are used for validation (unless these fields included in the inScheme
).
Works like option schemes
but enforces concepts to be inScheme
of one of the given vocabularies.
Works like option schemes
but successfully validated vocabularies are added to the list array of Concept Schemes (overriding vocabularies with same URI).
const schemes = []
validate.scheme(aScheme, { rememberSchemes: schemes })
validate.concept(aConcept, { schemes }) // includes aScheme for validation
This option is ignored if knownSchemes
is set because in this case the set of vocabularies is fixed.
Property errors
and errorMessages
of the validation function contain errors in detailled format and as array of error message strings, respectively.
const validate = require("jskos-validate")
if (!validate.concept(data)) {
validate.concept.errorMessages.forEach(console.error)
}
if (!validate(data)) {
validate.errorMessages.forEach(console.error)
}
Returns the version of JSKOS specification that is used for validation.
validate.version // 0.5.0
Please use GitHub issues for bug reports, feature requests or questions.
Maintainers only: To publish a new version on npm via GitHub Actions:
npm run release:patch # or minor, or major
MIT © 2019 Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG)