exonerate
v1.1.3

View Source Exonerate (exonerate v1.1.3)

An opinionated JSONSchema compiler for elixir.

Currently supports JSONSchema drafts 4, 6, 7, 2019, and 2020. except:

  • multipleOf is not supported for number types. This is because elixir does not support a floating point remainder guard, and also because it is impossible for a floating point to guarantee sane results (e.g. for IEEE Float64, 1.2 / 0.1 != 12)
  • id fields with fragments in their uri identifier (draft 7 and earlier only)
  • dynamicRefs and anchors.
  • contentMediaType, contentEncoding, contentSchema

For details, see: http://json-schema.org

Exonerate is automatically tested against the JSONSchema test suite.

Note that Exonerate does not generally validate that the schema presented to it is valid, unless the violation results in an uncompilable entity.

usage

 Usage

Exonerate yields 100% compile-time generated code. You may include Exonerate with the runtime: false option in mix.exs, unless you believe you will need to edit and recompile modules with Exonerate at runtime.

in-your-module

 In your module: 

defmodule MyModule do
  require Exonerate

  Exonerate.function_from_string(:def, :function_name, """
  {
    "type": "string"
  }
  """)
end

The above module generates a function MyModule.function_name/1 that takes an BEAM JSON term (string | number | list | map | bool | nil) and validates it based on the the JSONschema. If the term validates, it produces :ok. If the term fails to validate, it produces {:error, keyword}, where the key :instance_location and points to the error location in the passed parameter, the :schema_pointers points to the validation that failed, and error_value is the failing inner term.

error-keywords

 Error keywords

The following error keywords conform to the JSONSchema spec (https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/json-schema-core.html#name-format):

  • :absolute_keyword_location: a JSON pointer to the keyword in the schema that failed.
  • :instance_location: a JSON pointer to the location in the instance that failed.
  • :errors: a list of errors generated when a combining filter fails to match.

The following error keywords are not standard and are specific to Exonerate:

  • :error_value: the innermost term that failed to validate.
  • :matches: a list of JSON pointers to the keywords that matched a combining filter.
  • :reason: a string describing the error, when the failing filter can fail for nonobvious reasons. For example oneOf will fail with the reason "no matches" when none of the child schemas match; but it will fail with the reason "multiple matches" when more than of the child schemas match.
  • :required: a list of object keys that were required but missing.
  • :ref_trace: a list of $ref keywords that were followed to get to the failing keyword.

options

 Options

The following options are available:

  • :dump: true to dump the generated code to the console. Note that this will create function names that aren't the function names when compiled otherwise, but adjusted so that you can copy/paste them into the elixir console. This could cause collisions when more than one dumped templates are present in the same module.

  • :metadata: true to enable all metadata decorator functions or a list of atoms parameters to enable. The following metadata are accessible by passing the corresponding atom to the generated function in lieu of a JSON term to validate.

    JSONschema tagatom parameter
    $id or id:id
    $schema:schema_id
    default:default
    examples:examples
    description:description
    title:title
    <entire schema>:schema

  • :format: instructions for using (optional) format filters. This should be either true or a keyword list:

    • true: shorthand for [default: true]

    • keywords:

      • :at: a list of {<json pointer>, <filter-spec>} tuples to apply format filters in specific locations in the schema. This can be used to specify custom filters for non-default format types. It can also be used to override default formatting. <json pointer> should be a string which may be relative if no "id" or "$id" metadata are present in the parents of the location. Otherwise, the pointer must the a uri of the nearest parent containing "id" or "$id" metadata, with the relative pointer applied as the fragment of the uri.

        <filter-spec> may either be a module, which implies the existence of the module.validate/1 function, {module, function} which implies the existence of module.function/1, or {module, function, [extra-args]} which implies the existence of module.function/n where the extra args are appended to the end of string to be validated.

        In all cases, the validation function is expected to emit :ok if the string validates, or {:error, reason}, if it does not. reason should either be a string or nil.

      • :type: a list of {<format-type>, <filter-spec>} to apply across the schema whenever <format-type> is encountered. This can be used to specify custom filters for non-default format types. It can also be used to override default formatting. <filter-spec> is as above.

      • :default: true to enable all default filters or a list of strings specifying the default format types to enable. The following format types are available:

  • :entrypoint: a JSONpointer to the internal location inside of a json document where you would like to start the JSONschema. This should be in JSONPointer form (not URI form). See https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6901 for more information about JSONPointer

  • :decoders: a list of {<mimetype>, <decoder>} tuples. <encoding-type> should be a string that matches the content-type of the schema. <decoder> should be one of the following:

    • Jason (default) for json parsing
    • YamlElixir for yaml parsing
    • {module, function} for custom parsing; the function should accept a string and return json term, raising if the string is not valid input for the decoder.

    Defaults to [{"application/json", Jason}, {"application/yaml", YamlElixir}]. Tuples specified in this option will override or add to the defaults.

  • :draft: specifies any special draft information. Defaults to "2020", "2019", "4", "6", and "7" are also supported. This overrides draft information provided in the schema

    validation

     Validation

    Validation is NOT performed on the schema, so intermingling draft components is possible (but not recommended). In the future, using components in the wrong draft may cause a compile-time warning.

remoteref-schema-retrieval-options

 remoteRef schema retrieval options

  • :remote_fetch_adapter: specifies the module to use for fetching remote resources. This module must export a fetch_remote!/2 function which is passed a URI.t/0 struct and returns {<body>, <content-type>} pair. content-type may be nil. Defaults to Exonerate.Remote, which uses the Req library to perform the http request.

  • :force_remote: bypasses the manual prompt confirming if remote resources should be downoladed. Use with caution! Defaults to false.

  • :cache: if remote JSONs should be cached to the local filesystem. Defaults to false

  • :cache_app: specifies the otp app whose priv directory cached remote JSONs are stored. Defaults to :exonerate.

  • :cache_path: specifies the subdirectory of priv where cached remote JSONs are stored. Defaults to /.

  • :proxy: a string proplist which describes string substitution of url resources for proxied remote content.

    Example

    [proxy: [{"https://my.remote.resource/", "http://localhost:4000"}]]

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Functions

function_from_file(type, function_name, path, opts \\ [])

generates a series of functions that validates a JSONschema in a file at the provided path.

function_from_resource(type, function_name, resource, opts \\ [])

generates a series of functions from a previously provided JSONSchema found registered using register_resource/3.

function_from_string(type, function_name, schema_ast, opts \\ [])

generates a series of functions that validates a provided JSONSchema.

register_resource(schema, name, opts \\ [])

saves in the compile-time registry a schema under the given name. The schema can then be used to generate a validation function with function_from_resource/3. This is useful for clearly reusing a string schema across multiple functions with potentially different entrypoints, but without having to repeat the (potentially large) schema string literal in your module code.

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function_from_file(type, function_name, path, opts \\ [])

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generates a series of functions that validates a JSONschema in a file at the provided path.

Note that the path parameter must be a Path.t/0 value. The function names will contain the file url.

options

 Options

The options described at the top of the module are available to this macro, in addition to the options described in register_resource/3

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function_from_resource(type, function_name, resource, opts \\ [])

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generates a series of functions from a previously provided JSONSchema found registered using register_resource/3.

Note that the resource parameter must be a string literal defined earlier in a register_resource/3 call

options

 Options

Only supply options described in the module section.

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function_from_string(type, function_name, schema_ast, opts \\ [])

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generates a series of functions that validates a provided JSONSchema.

Note that the schema parameter must be a string literal.

extra-options

 Extra options

The options described at the top of the module are available to this macro, in addition to the options described in register_resource/3

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register_resource(schema, name, opts \\ [])

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saves in the compile-time registry a schema under the given name. The schema can then be used to generate a validation function with function_from_resource/3. This is useful for clearly reusing a string schema across multiple functions with potentially different entrypoints, but without having to repeat the (potentially large) schema string literal in your module code.

note

 Note

this function is optional, function_from_string/4 will also create a resource for the string and reuse private functions between calls.

file-schemas

 File schemas

function_from_file/4 will perform the equivalent of this process under the hood, so don't run this function for file functions.

extra-options

 Extra options

  • :encoding: specifies the content-type of the provided schema string literal. Defaults to application/json if the file extension is .json, and application/yaml if the file extension is .yaml If :encoding is unspecified and the file extension is unrecognized, Exonerate will not be able to compile.
  • :mimetype_mapping: a proplist of {<extension>, <mimetype>} tuples. This is used to determine the content-type of the schema if the file extension is unrecognized. E.g. [{".html", "text/html"}]. The mappings {".json", "application/json"} and {".yaml", "application/yaml"} are not overrideable.