libcoveocds 0.17.0

A data review library for the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)

Command line

Call libcoveocds and pass the filename of some JSON data.

libcoveocds tests/fixtures/common_checks/basic_1.json

It will produce JSON data of the results to standard output. You can pipe this straight into a file to work with.

You can also pass --schema-version 1.X to force it to check against a certain version of the schema.

In some modes, it will also leave directory of data behind. The following options apply to this mode:

• Pass --convert to get it to produce spreadsheets of the data.

• Pass --output-dir output to specify a directory name (default is a name based on the filename).

• Pass --delete to delete the output directory if it already exists (default is to error)

• Pass --exclude-file to avoid copying the original file into the output directory (default is to copy)

(If none of these are specified, it will not leave any files behind)

Library

To use this as a Python library as part of a Python script for validating multiple files or testing, you need to:

1. Install the library with pip:

   pip install libcoveocds

   If using the library in a web context, install as:

   pip install libcoveocds[web]

2. Use it in your Python code, for example:

   import os
   import shutil
   import tempfile
   
   from libcoveocds.api import ocds_json_output
   
   
   data_directory = "path/to/your/directory/with/json/files"
   temporary_directory = tempfile.mkdtemp(dir=tempfile.gettempdir())
   
   for filename in os.listdir(data_directory):
       path = os.path.join(data_directory, filename)
       try:
           result = ocds_json_output(temporary_directory, path, file_type="json")
      finally:
          shutil.rmtree(temporary_directory)
   
       # Do something with the result. For example:
       if result["validation_errors"]:
           for error in result["validation_errors"]:
               print(f"Validation error {error} found in {path}")
       else:
           print(f"No validation errors found for {path}")

Code for use by external users

The only code that should be used directly by users is the libcoveocds.config and libcoveocds.api modules.

Other code (in libcore, lib, etc.) should not be used by external users of this library directly, as the structure and use of these may change more frequently.

Output JSON format

The output is an object with the following properties:

Property (key) name	Type	Value
file_type	string	The type of the file supplied, one of json, csv, xlsx or ods
version_used	string	The version of the OCDS schemas used, e.g. 1.1 (This is 1.0 when no version fields exists)
schema_url	string	The URL to the package schema used, e.g. https://standard.open-contracting.org/1.1/en/release-package-schema.json
extensions	object	An extensions object
validation_errors	array[object]	An array of validation_errors objects
common_error_types	array[]	Always an empty array
deprecated_fields	array[object]	An array of deprecated_fields objects
additional_closed_codelist_values	object	A mapping from a codelist field’s JSON Pointer (with array indices removed, e.g. releases/tender/documents/documentType) to an additional codelist object
additional_open_codelist_values	object	A mapping from a codelist field’s JSON Pointer (with array indices removed, e.g. releases/tender/documents/documentType) to an additional codelist object
additional_checks	object	A mapping from an additional check type (currently only empty_field) to an array of additional check objects
conformance_errors	object	A conformance_errors object
additional_fields	array[object]	The top-level additional fields, as an array of additional_fields objects
all_additional_fields	array[object]	All additional fields, including children of other additional fields, as an array of all_additional_fields objects
json_deref_error	string	An exception message for an unresolvable reference (if raised)
count	integer	The number of objects in the “releases” or “records” array
unique_ocids_count	integer	The number of unique OCIDs that are hashable

Note that wherever a schema is used, it is the extended schema (if extensions exist).

extensions

Property (key) name	Type	Value
extensions	array[object]	An extensions/extensions object
invalid_extensions	array[array[string]]	An array of pairs of an extension URL and a human-readable error message, e.g. [["http://etc", "404: not found"]]
extended_schema_url	string	The file the extended schema will be written to, if an output directory has been set, e.g. extended_schema.json
is_extended_schema	boolean	Has the schema been extended?

extensions/extensions

Property (key) name	Type	Value
url	string	The URL of the extension’s metadata file, e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-contracting-extensions/ocds_metrics_extension/master/extension.json
schema_url	string	The URL of the extension’s release schema file, e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-contracting-extensions/ocds_metrics_extension/master/release-schema.json
description	string	Extracted from the metadata file
name	string	Extracted from the metadata file
documentationUrl	string	Extracted from the metadata file
failed_codelists	object	A mapping from an extended codelist name (prefixed with + or - if appropriate) to a human-readable error message
codelists	array[string]	Extracted from the metadata file

validation_errors

Note that this list will exclude codelist errors, which instead appear in additional_closed_codelist_values.

lib-cove-ocds uses the jsonschema module’s uniqueItems validator to check for unique OCIDs and IDs.

Property (key) name	Type	Value
type	string	The JSON Schema keyword that caused the validation error, e.g. minLength (full list in the jsonschema lib), unless the keyword is type or format, in which case this is the relevant type or format, e.g. array or date-time
field	string	The JSON Pointer to the erroneous data, with array indices removed, e.g. releases/tender/items
description	string	A human-readable error message, e.g. 'id' is missing but required within 'items'
path	string	The JSON Pointer to the erroneous data, e.g. releases/0/tender/items/0
value	any	The value in the data that was erroneous, or "" if not applicable

deprecated_fields

Property (key) name	Type	Value
paths	array[string]	An array of JSON Pointers to parent objects containing deprecated fields, e.g. ["releases/0/tender"]
explanation	array[string]	A pair of the version in which the field was deprecated, and the human-readable deprecation message, e.g. ["1.1", "Some explanation text"]
field	string	The name of the field within the parent object that is deprecated, e.g. amendment

additional codelist object

Property (key) name	Type	Value
path	string	The JSON Pointer to the parent object, with array indices removed, e.g. releases/tender/documents
field	string	The name of the codelist field, e.g. documentType
codelist	string	The filename of the codelist, e.g. documentType.csv
codelist_url	string	The URL of the codelist, e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-contracting/standard/1.1/schema/codelists/documentType.csv
codelist_amend_urls	array[array[string]	The URLs of the codelist patches in extensions that modify the codelist, as an array of pairs of + or - and the URL, e.g. [["+", "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-contracting-extensions/ocds_tariffs_extension/d9df2969030b0a555c24c7db685262c714b4da24/codelists/+documentType.csv"]]
isopen	boolean	Is this an open codelist?
values	array*	Values of the field that are not in the codelist
extension_codelist	boolean	Is the codelist added by an extension? (Not only modified by it)

additional check object

Property (key) name	Type	Value
json_location	string	A JSON Pointer to the problematic data, e.g. releases/0/buyer

conformance_errors

Property (key) name	Type	Value
ocds_prefixes_bad_format	array[array[string]]	An array of pairs of a bad ocid value and the JSON Pointer to it, e.g. ["MY-ID", "releases/0/ocid"]
ocid_description	string	The description of the ocid field from the OCDS schema
ocid_info_url	string	The URL to the identifiers content in the OCDS documentation

additional_fields

Property (key) name	Type	Value
path	string	The JSON Pointer to the parent object, with array indices removed, e.g. /releases/tender
field	string	The name of the additional field, e.g. myField
usage_count	integer	The number of times the additional field is set

all_additional_fields

Property (key) name	Type	Value
count	integer	The number of times the additional field is set
examples	array*	A sample of up to 3 values of the field
root_additional_field	boolean	Is the parent object described by the schema?
additional_field_descendance	object	The additional fields that are descendants of this field. Is only set if root_additional_field is true. A mapping from an additional field’s JSON Pointer (with array indices removed) to an all_additional_fields object in which root_additional_field is false
path	string	The JSON Pointer to the parent object, with array indices removed, e.g. /releases/tender
field_name	string	The name of the additional field, e.g. myField

array*

An array marked with an asterisk is populated from fields in the data, so could be any type (if the data doesn’t conform to the schema).

Contributing

lib-cove-ocds was extracted from [cove](https://github.com/OpenDataServices/cove/tree/fa4441b9413324a740b8dc063ffbf0256a353c55).