Welcome to pykwalify’s documentation!

PyKwalify is a open source port of the kwalify lib and specification. The original source code was written in Java but this port is based on Python. The code is open source, and available on github.

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

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

Usage

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

Examples

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 and ruamel.yaml

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.

UTF-8 and data encoding

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 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.

PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8 pykwalify ...

Project details

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) gitter-badge
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) travis-master
Travis (unstable) travis-unstable
Test coverage coveralls-badge
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