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Creating or Extending Validator Classes
jsonschema.validators
create
Create a new validator class.
- argument dict meta_schema
-
the meta schema for the new validator class
- argument dict validators
-
a mapping from names to callables, where each callable will validate the schema property with the given name.
Each callable should take 4 arguments:
- a validator instance,
- the value of the property being validated within the instance
- the instance
- the schema
- argument str version
-
an identifier for the version that this validator class will validate. If provided, the returned validator class will have its
__name__
set to include the version, and also will havevalidates
automatically called for the given version. - argument dict default_types
-
a default mapping to use for instances of the validator class when mapping between JSON types to Python types. The default for this argument is probably fine. Instances can still have their types customized on a per-instance basis.
- returns
-
a new
jsonschema.IValidator
class
extend
Create a new validator class by extending an existing one.
- argument jsonschema.IValidator validator
-
an existing validator class
- argument dict validators
-
a mapping of new validator callables to extend with, whose structure is as in
create
.Note
Any validator callables with the same name as an existing one will (silently) replace the old validator callable entirely, effectively overriding any validation done in the "parent" validator class.
If you wish to instead extend the behavior of a parent's validator callable, delegate and call it directly in the new validator function by retrieving it using
OldValidator.VALIDATORS["validator_name"]
. - argument str version
-
a version for the new validator class
- returns
-
a new
jsonschema.IValidator
class
Note
Meta Schemas
The new validator class will have its parent's meta schema.
If you wish to change or extend the meta schema in the new validator
class, modify META_SCHEMA
directly on the returned class.
Note that no implicit copying is done, so a copy should likely be made
before modifying it, in order to not affect the old validator.
validator_for
Retrieve the validator class appropriate for validating the given schema.
Uses the $schema
property that should be present in the
given schema to look up the appropriate validator class.
- argument schema
-
the schema to look at
- argument default
-
the default to return if the appropriate validator class cannot be determined. If unprovided, the default is to return
Draft4Validator
validates
Creating Validation Errors
Any validating function that validates against a subschema should
call ValidatorMixin.descend
, rather than ValidatorMixin.iter_errors
.
If it recurses into the instance, or schema, it should pass one or both
of the path
or schema_path
arguments to ValidatorMixin.descend
in
order to properly maintain where in the instance or schema respsectively
the error occurred.