jsonvalidator-cli 0.1.0

A simple CLI tool to validate JSON files

JSON Validator CLI

A simple, lightweight command-line tool to validate JSON files and check them against JSON schemas.

Features

• ✅ Validate JSON file syntax
• ✅ Validate JSON against JSON Schema
• ✅ Pretty-print JSON files
• ✅ Clear error messages
• ✅ Easy to use CLI interface

Installation

Install from PyPI (when published)

pip install jsonvalidator-cli

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/bijesh-bits/jsonvalidator.git
cd jsonvalidator
pip install -e .

For development

git clone https://github.com/bijesh-bits/jsonvalidator.git
cd jsonvalidator
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or higher
• jsonschema library (automatically installed)

Usage

Validate JSON syntax

jsonvalidator validate data.json

Example output:

✓ 'data.json' is valid JSON

Validate against a JSON Schema

jsonvalidator validate data.json --schema schema.json

Example output:

✓ 'data.json' is valid according to schema 'schema.json'

Pretty-print JSON

jsonvalidator format data.json

You can customize indentation:

jsonvalidator format data.json --indent 4

Show version

jsonvalidator version

Examples

Create a sample JSON file:

{
  "name": "John Doe",
  "age": 30,
  "email": "[e-mail]"
}

Create a schema file:

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {"type": "string"},
    "age": {"type": "integer"},
    "email": {"type": "string", "format": "email"}
  },
  "required": ["name", "email"]
}

Then validate:

jsonvalidator validate user.json --schema user-schema.json

Use Cases

• Quick JSON validation during development
• CI/CD pipelines - validate configuration files
• Data validation - ensure JSON data meets requirements
• Learning tool - understand JSON Schema validation

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for version history and changes.

Authors

Created by Code-Crafters as part of an Open Source Software course project at BITS Pilani.

Support

• 🐛 Report bugs: GitHub Issues
• 💡 Feature requests: GitHub Issues
• 📖 Documentation: GitHub Wiki