JSKOS Validation

Validation for JSKOS data.

This repository contains tools for validating JSKOS data.

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
  • unknownFields
  • schemes
  • knownSchemes
  • rememberSchemes
  • errors and errorMessages
  • version
• Maintainers
• Contribute
  • Publish
  • Updating JSKOS Spec/Schemas
• License

Install

Install as dependency to your Node project (requires Node.js 18 or later):

npm i jskos-validate

We are also providing a browser bundle: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jskos-validate@1/dist/jskos-validate.js It will be available under the global name JSKOS_VALIDATE which is an object with the member validate (see below).

Usage

For CLI usage, better use a client such as jskos-cli.

// ESM
import { validate } from "jskos-validate"
// CJS
const { validate } = require("jskos-validate")
// Browser
const { validate } = JSKOS_VALIDATE

This module provides validation methods for each JSKOS object type based on JSON Schemas and additional constraints.

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.

unknownFields

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.

validate(data, { unknownFields: true })

schemes

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).

knownSchemes

Works like option schemes but enforces concepts to be inScheme of one of the given vocabularies.

rememberSchemes

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.

errors and errorMessages

Property errors and errorMessages of the validation function contain errors in Data Validation Error Format and as array of error message strings, respectively.

if (!validate.concept(data)) {
  validate.concept.errorMessages.forEach(console.error)
}

if (!validate(data)) {
  validate.errorMessages.forEach(console.error)
}

version

Returns the version of JSKOS specification that is used for validation.

validate.version // 0.5.4

Maintainers

• @nichtich

Contribute

Please use GitHub issues for bug reports, feature requests or questions.

PRs are accepted against the dev branch only.

If editing the README, please conform to the standard-readme specification.

For local development first clone the current version for development:

git clone https://github.com/gbv/jskos-validate.git
cd jskos-validate
git checkout dev
npm ci
npm run test
npm run build

Coding style can be checked and fixed with npm lint and npm fix, respectively.

Test coverage can be shown with npm run coverage.

Publish

Please work on the dev branch during development (or better yet, develop in a feature branch and merge into dev when ready).

When a new release is ready (i.e. the features are finished, merged into dev, and all tests succeed), run the included release script (replace "patch" with "minor" or "major" if necessary):

npm run release:patch # or minor, or major

This will:

• Check that we are on dev
• Run tests and build to make sure everything works
• Make sure dev is up-to-date
• Run npm version patch (or "minor"/"major")
• Push changes to dev
• Switch to main
• Merge changes from dev
• Push main with tags
• Switch back to dev

After running this, GitHub Actions will automatically publish the new version to npm.

Updating JSKOS Spec/Schemas

To update the dependency on the JSKOS JSON Schemas, update the jskos submodule referencing the JSKOS repository.

License

MIT © 2019 Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG)