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About
Openapi-schema-validator is a Python library that validates schema against:
OpenAPI Schema Specification v3.0 <https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/3.0.0.md#schemaObject>__ which is an extended subset of the JSON Schema Specification Wright Draft 00 <http://json-schema.org/>__.OpenAPI Schema Specification v3.1 <https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/3.1.0.md#schemaObject>__ which is an extended superset of the JSON Schema Specification Draft 2020-12 <http://json-schema.org/>__.Documentation #############
Check documentation to see more details about the features. All documentation is in the "docs" directory and online at openapi-schema-validator.readthedocs.io <https://openapi-schema-validator.readthedocs.io>__
Installation ############
Recommended way (via pip):
.. code-block:: console
pip install openapi-schema-validator
Alternatively you can download the code and install from the repository:
.. code-block:: console
pip install -e git+https://github.com/python-openapi/openapi-schema-validator.git#egg=openapi_schema_validator
Usage
To validate an OpenAPI v3.1 schema:
.. code-block:: python
from openapi_schema_validator import validate
schema = { "type": "object", "required": [ "name" ], "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "age": { "type": ["integer", "null"], "format": "int32", "minimum": 0, }, "birth-date": { "type": "string", "format": "date", }, "address": { "type": 'array', "prefixItems": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "string" }, { "enum": ["Street", "Avenue", "Boulevard"] }, { "enum": ["NW", "NE", "SW", "SE"] } ], "items": False, } }, "additionalProperties": False, }
validate({"name": "John", "age": 23, "address": [1600, "Pennsylvania", "Avenue"]}, schema)
validate({"name": "John", "city": "London"}, schema)
Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValidationError: Additional properties are not allowed ('city' was unexpected)
By default, the latest OpenAPI schema syntax is expected.
For more details read about Validation <https://openapi-schema-validator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/validation.html>__.
Related projects ################
openapi-core <https://github.com/python-openapi/openapi-core>__
Python library that adds client-side and server-side support for the OpenAPI.openapi-spec-validator <https://github.com/python-openapi/openapi-spec-validator>__
Python library that validates OpenAPI Specs against the OpenAPI 2.0 (aka Swagger) and OpenAPI 3.0 specificationFAQs
OpenAPI schema validation for Python
We found that openapi-schema-validator demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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