com.github.fge.jsonschema.main

Class JsonSchema

java.lang.Object

com.github.fge.jsonschema.main.JsonSchema

@Immutable
public final class JsonSchema
extends Object

Single-schema instance validator

This is the class you will use the most often. It is, in essence, a JsonValidator initialized with a single JSON Schema. Note however that this class still retains the ability to resolve JSON References.

It has no public constructors: you should use the appropriate methods in JsonSchemaFactory to obtain an instance of this class.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ProcessingReport	validate(JsonNode instance) Validate an instance and return a processing report
ProcessingReport	validateUnchecked(JsonNode instance) Validate an instance and return a processing report (unchecked version)
boolean	validInstance(JsonNode instance) Check whether an instance is valid against this schema
boolean	validInstanceUnchecked(JsonNode instance) Check whether an instance is valid against this schema (unchecked version)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

validate

public ProcessingReport validate(JsonNode instance)
                          throws ProcessingException

Validate an instance and return a processing report

Parameters:

instance - the instance to validate

Returns:

a processing report

Throws:

ProcessingException - a processing error occurred during validation

validateUnchecked

public ProcessingReport validateUnchecked(JsonNode instance)

Validate an instance and return a processing report (unchecked version)

Unchecked validation means that conditions which would normally cause the processing to stop with an exception are instead inserted into the resulting report.

Warning: this means that anomalous events like an unresolvable JSON Reference, or an invalid schema, are masked!

Parameters:

instance - the instance to validate

Returns:

a report (a ListProcessingReport if an exception was thrown during processing)

validInstance

public boolean validInstance(JsonNode instance)
                      throws ProcessingException

Check whether an instance is valid against this schema

Parameters:

instance - the instance

Returns:

true if the instance is valid

Throws:

ProcessingException - an error occurred during processing

validInstanceUnchecked

public boolean validInstanceUnchecked(JsonNode instance)

Check whether an instance is valid against this schema (unchecked version)

The same warnings apply as described in validateUnchecked(JsonNode).

Parameters:

instance - the instance to validate

Returns:

true if the instance is valid