Marcus

Marcus

Xema and JsonXema - Schema validatiors

JsonXema is a JSON Schema validator with support for draft 04, 06, and 07. JsonXema based on elixir schema validator Xema.

https://github.com/hrzndhrn/json_xema

Xema is a schema validator inspired by JSON Schema. In Xema schemas can be created in Elixir and any data structure can be validated.

https://github.com/hrzndhrn/xema

Feedback, critic, improvements and PRs are very welcome, thanks!

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dimitarvp

dimitarvp

I’d be interested in seeing a side-by-side comparison between Xema and Ecto’s validation.

Marcus

Marcus

Xema 0.9.0 is released. The new version comes with some breaking changes, see changelog.

New features

  • convert data with Xema.cast
  • nice error messages

Example:

iex> defmodule Person do
...>   use Xema
...>
...>   xema do
...>     map(
...>       keys: :atoms,
...>       properties: %{
...>         name: string(),
...>         age: integer(minimum: 0),
...>         fav: atom(enum: [:erlan, :elixir, :js, :rust, :go])
...>       }
...>     )
...>   end
...>
...>   def new(args), do: cast!(args)
...> end
iex>
iex> person = Person.new(name: "Joe", age: 24, fav: :elixir) 
%{
  age: 24,
  fav: :elixir,
  name: "Joe"
}
iex> json = person |> Jason.encode!() |> Jason.decode()
%{
  "age" => 24,
  "fav" => "elixir",
  "name" => "Joe"
}
iex> Person.cast!(json)
%{
  age: 24,
  fav: :elixir,
  name: "Joe"
}
iex> {:error, error} = Person.validate(%{name: 42, age: -1, fav: :php})
iex> Exception.message(error) 
"""
Value -1 is less than minimum value of 0, at [:age].
Value :php is not defined in enum, at [:fav].
Expected :string, got 42, at [:name].\
"""

More examples can be found at section Cast and Examples - Cast JSON.

repromancer

repromancer

Thanks for working on this! I wanted to try JSON Schema with my new personal project, and was disappointed to see the top Google result is a few specifications out-of-date. Glad I searched here on the forum!

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Marcus

Marcus

Hello @egze thanks for the :fire: and sorry for the late response.

The JSON-Editor could be a good example to show how xema works together with phoenix-forms.

At the moment I have no idea for the form but a simplified first approach for the schema could be:

defmodule Form do
  use Xema

  @str map(properties: %{t: [const: "str"], v: :string})
  @int map(properties: %{t: [const: "int"], v: :integer})
  @obj map(
         properties: %{
           t: [const: "obj"],
           v:
             map(
               property_names: string(min_length: 1),
               pattern_properties: %{".*" => ref("#")}
             )
         }
       )
  @arr list(items: ref("#"))

  xema do
    one_of([@str, @int, @arr, @obj])
  end
end

That would work for:

iex> Form.valid?(%{t: "str", v: "Hinz"})
true
iex> Form.valid?(%{
  t: "obj",
  v: %{
    foo: %{t: "int", v: 55},
    bar: [%{t: "str", v: "Hinz"}, %{t: "str", v: "Kunz"}]
  }
})

In case of invalid data the error reason is a little bit hard to handle.

iex> Form.validate(%{
  t: "obj",
  v: %{
    foo: %{t: "int", v: 55},
    bar: [%{t: "str", v: "Hinz"}, %{t: "str", v: 88}]
  }
})
{:error,
 %Xema.ValidationError{
   message: nil,
   reason: %{
     one_of: {:error,
      [
        %{
          properties: %{
            t: %{const: "str", value: "obj"},
            v: %{
              type: :string,
              value: %{bar: [%{t: "str", v: "Hinz"}, %{t: "str", v: 88}], foo: %{t: "int", v: 55}}
            }
          }
        },
        %{
          properties: %{
            t: %{const: "int", value: "obj"},
            v: %{
              type: :integer,
              value: %{bar: [%{t: "str", v: "Hinz"}, %{t: "str", v: 88}], foo: %{t: "int", v: 55}}
            }
          }
        },
        %{
          type: :list,
          value: %{
            t: "obj",
            v: %{bar: [%{t: "str", v: "Hinz"}, %{t: "str", v: 88}], foo: %{t: "int", v: 55}}
          }
        },
        %{
          properties: %{
            v: %{
              properties: %{
                bar: %{
                  one_of: {:error,
                   [
                     %{type: :map, value: [%{t: "str", v: "Hinz"}, %{t: "str", v: 88}]},
                     %{type: :map, value: [%{t: "str", v: "Hinz"}, %{t: "str", v: 88}]},
                     %{
                       items: %{
                         1 => %{
                           one_of: {:error,
                            [
                              %{properties: %{v: %{type: :string, value: 88}}},
                              %{properties: %{t: %{const: "int", value: "str"}}},
                              %{type: :list, value: %{t: "str", v: 88}},
                              %{
                                properties: %{
                                  t: %{const: "obj", value: "str"},
                                  v: %{type: :map, value: 88}
                                }
                              }
                            ]},
                           value: %{t: "str", v: 88}
                         }
                       }
                     },
                     %{type: :map, value: [%{t: "str", v: "Hinz"}, %{t: "str", v: 88}]}
                   ]},
                  value: [%{t: "str", v: "Hinz"}, %{t: "str", v: 88}]
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      ]},
     value: %{
       t: "obj",
       v: %{bar: [%{t: "str", v: "Hinz"}, %{t: "str", v: 88}], foo: %{t: "int", v: 55}}
     }
   }
 }}

I think this could be improved in xema.

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