systopia/opis-json-schema-ext

Extension for Opis JSON Schema

v0.6.1 2025-04-07 14:17 UTC

README

This is an extension for Opis JSON Schema.

Keywords

The following additional keywords are provided:

  • $calculate
  • evaluate
  • maxDate
  • minDate
  • noIntersect An array must not contain intersecting intervals.
  • $order Order arrays. (Only performed, if array has no violations.)
  • precision
  • $tag Tagged data can be fetched from a data container after validation.
  • $validations
  • $limitValidation Allows to limit validation under specifiable conditions. See below.

See tests for how to use them.

The SystopiaValidator already provides those keywords. To use them in a different validator class you might want to use SystopiaSchemaParser or SystopiaVocabulary.

Limit validation

The keyword $limitValidation allows to limit validation under specifiable conditions. The reason behind this keyword was to persist forms in an incomplete state. This can also be achieved with the if-then-else keywords, though it dramatically increases the size of the schema and is error-prone (at least for complex schemas).

The structure of the $limitValidation keyword is:

{
  "condition": JSON Schema,
  "rules": [
    {
      "keyword": JSON Schema,
      "keywordValue": JSON Schema,
      "value": JSON Schema,
      "calculatedValueUsedViolatedData": boolean|null,
      "validate": boolean
    }
  ],
  "schema": JSON Schema
}

rules can have an indefinite number of entries.

If the schema at condition is matched, limited validation is performed. It is applied on the keywords at the same depth and the keywords below. If it's not set, the result of the condition evaluation on a higher level is used. If the $limitValidation keyword is not used at a higher level, false is used as fallback.

The properties of a rule have the following defaults:

  • keyword, keywordValue, value: true
  • calculatedValueUsedViolatedData: null
  • validate: false

To the entries in rules the default rules are always appended. To prevent the execution of the default rules a rule with just the validate property can be used ({ "validate": false } or { "validate": true }).

schema has the default value true.

If the specified condition is matched, the rules are applied in case of a violation of a keyword at the same depth or of a keyword below. In case of a violation it will be iterated over the rules until a matching rule is found. If the validate property of that rule is false the violation will be ignored.

The rule matching is done like this:

  • The violated keyword (e.g. type) is matched against the schema in keyword.
  • The value of the violated keyword is matched against the schema in keywordValue.
  • The invalid value is matched against the schema in value.

All schemas must be matched for a rule to be matched. If calculatedValueUsedViolatedData is not null, the value has to be calculated (with the $calculate keyword) and must or must not have used violated data depending on the actual value of calculatedValueUsedViolatedData. Violated data is used, if the calculation references a value that has a validation error (including ignored ones).

The keyword schema allows to specify a schema that is validated additionally, if the condition is matched. This allows for example to require some properties on limited validation: "schema": { "required": ["foo", "bar"] }.

Example:

{
  "$limitValidation": {
    "condition": {
      "properties": {
        "action": { "const": "save" }
      }
    },
    "rules": [
      {
        "keyword": { "const": "type" },
        "keywordValue": { "not": { "const": "string" } },
        "value": { "type": ["number", "bool"] },
        "validate": true
      },
      {
        "validate": false
      }
    ],
    "schema": {
      "required": ["example"]
    }
  }
}

This means that if the property action is set to "save", limited validation is applied. The rules say that only violations are treated as such, if these conditions are met:

  • The violated keyword is type.
  • The value of the violated keyword is not "string".
  • The validated value is neither a number nor a boolean.

All other violations are ignored because of the second rule.

Additionally, the property example is required, if action is "save".

Default rules

The default rules are:

[
  {
    "value": { "const": null }
  },
  {
    "keyword": { "not": { "const": "type" } },
    "value": { "enum": [false, ""] }
  },
  {
    "keyword": {
      "enum": [
        "minLength",
        "minItems",
        "minContains",
        "minProperties",
        "required",
        "dependentRequired"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "calculatedValueUsedViolatedData": true
  },
  {
    "validate": true
  }
]

The rules mean:

  1. No violation error, if the validated value is null.
  2. No violation error, if the violated keyword is not type and the validated value is false or "" (empty string).
  3. No violation error, if the validated keyword is one of: minLength, minItems, minContains, minProperties, required, dependentRequired
  4. No violation error, if value is calculated and calculation used data with violations (including ignored ones).
  5. Every other validation without limitation.

Empty array to object conversion

If the option convertEmptyArrays is set to true (disabled by default), empty arrays will be converted to objects if the schema type contains object, but not array. This might be necessary if the data to validate was already decoded.

Translation

This extension allows to translate ValidationErrors:

First create an instance of TranslatorInterface:

$translator = new Translator($locale, $messages);

If there is a localisation in the messages directory you can use:

$translator = TranslatorFactory::createTranslator($locale);

Then create an instance of ErrorTranslator:

$errorTranslator = new ErrorTranslator($translator);

Let the ErrorTranslator translate a validation error:

echo $errorTranslator->trans($error);