YAML/JSON validation library

This framework is a port with alot added functionality of the java version of the framework kwalify that can be found at: http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kwalify/

The original source code can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kwalify/files/kwalify-java/0.5.1/

The source code of the latest release that has been used can be found at: https://github.com/sunaku/kwalify. Please note that source code is not the original authors code but a fork/upload of the last release available in ruby.

The schema this library is base and extended from: http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kwalify/ruby/users-guide.01.html#schema

Create a data file. Json and Yaml formats are both supported.

- foo
- bar

Create a schema file with validation rules.

type: seq
sequence:
  - type: str

Run validation from cli.

pykwalify -d data.yaml -s schema.yaml

The documentation describes in detail how each keyword and type works and what is possible in each case.

But there is a lot of real world examples that can be found in the test data/files. It shows alot of examples of how all keywords and types work in practise and in combination with eachother.

The files can be found here and it shows both schema/data combinations that will work and that will fail.

• tests/files/success/
• tests/files/fail/
• tests/files/partial_schemas/

PyYaml is the default installed yaml parser and ruamel.yaml is possible to install at the same time with the following command

pip install 'pykwalify[ruamel]'

# or for development:

pip install -e '.[ruamel]'

ruamel.yaml will however be used if both is installed becuase it is more up to date and includes the YAML 1.2 specification that PyYaml do not support.

PyYaml will still be the default parser becuase it is used more and is still considered the default YAML parser in the python world.

Depending on how both libraries is developed, this can change in the future in any major update.

If you have problems with unicode values not working properly when running pykwalify on python 2.7.x then try to add this environment variable to your execution

PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8 pykwalify ...

and it might help to force UTF-8 encoding on all string objects. If this do not work please open up a issue with your schema and data that can be used to track down the problem in the source code.

python support	2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
Source	https://github.com/Grokzen/pykwalify
Docs (Latest release)	http://pykwalify.readthedocs.io/en/master/
Docs (Unstable branch)	http://pykwalify.readthedocs.io/en/unstable/
Gitter (Free Chat)	
Changelog	https://github.com/Grokzen/pykwalify/blob/unstable/docs/release-notes.rst
Upgrade instructions	https://github.com/Grokzen/pykwalify/blob/unstable/docs/upgrade-instructions.rst
Issues	https://github.com/Grokzen/pykwalify/issues
Travis (master)	https://travis-ci.org/Grokzen/pykwalify
Travis (unstable)	https://travis-ci.org/Grokzen/pykwalify
Test coverage	https://coveralls.io/github/Grokzen/pykwalify
pypi	https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pykwalify/
Open Hub	https://www.openhub.net/p/pykwalify
License	MIT https://github.com/Grokzen/pykwalify/blob/unstable/docs/license.rst
Copyright	Copyright (c) 2013-2017 Johan Andersson
git repo	git clone git@github.com:Grokzen/pykwalify.git
install stable	pip install pykwalify
install dev	$ git clone git@github.com:Grokzen/pykwalify.git pykwalify $ cd ./pykwalify $ virtualenv .venv $ source .venv/bin/activate $ pip install -r dev-requirements.txt $ pip install -e .
required dependencies	docopt >= 0.6.2 python-dateutil >= 2.4.2
supported yml parsers	PyYaml >= 3.11 ruamel.yaml >= 0.11.0