Validate schema

Using the command line

The installation step will install a CLI program named validateschema that can be used to validate your JSON file.

validateschema path/to/mycatalog.json

If stdout outputs no errors, the schema passed validation.

Using the library

You can also validate a file or a python dictionary using the library

import json
from gwosc_catalog import validate_schema

with open("path/to/mycatalog.json") as fp:
    cat = json.load(fp)
validate_schema(cat)

Or if you have a python dictionary object my_catalog_dict:

from gwosc_catalog import Catalog
cat = Catalog.from_json(my_catalog_dict)

The catalog is valid if no errors were raised.