The ajvr
library is a very thin wrapper around the awesome AJV JSON validation library. The essential change between the syntax presented in the official AJV Readme is exchanging JavaScripts dot operator (.
) with R’s dollar-sign operator ($
).
Note that care must be taken in transforming R objects to JSON, because of R’s everything-is-a-vector philosopy. Hence, for convenience file paths to valid JSON (.json
) and YAML (.yml
or .yaml
) may be used wherever an object is expected.
The fastest validation call:
library('ajv')
var ajv = Ajv() # options can be passed, e.g. list(allErrors= TRUE)
var validate = ajv$compile(schema)
var valid = validate(data)
if (!valid) print(validate$errors)
or with less code
# ...
var valid = ajv$validate(schema, data)
if (!valid) print(ajv$errors)
# ...
or
# ...
ajv$addSchema(schema, 'mySchema')
var valid = ajv$validate('mySchema', data)
if (!valid) print(ajv$errorsText())
# ...
Note that in each of these calls, schema
and data
arguments may be a valid JSON string, an R object (i.e. list(...)
), a connection to a JSON file, or the file name of JSON or YAML file. YAML files are parsed via js-yaml’s safeLoad()
method.