telicent-validation-tool

A library for validating data before it is brought in to Telicent CORE.

Install

pip install telicent-validation-tool

Usage

JSON Validation

The JSON validator loads a json-schema from a given file path, and uses the jsonschema library to validate the provided JSON.

from telicent_validation_tool import TelicentValidationError, validate_json

my_json: str = '{"name: "John Smith"}'
schema_path: str = '/path/to/schema.json'

try:
    validate_json(my_json, schema_path)
except TelicentValidationError as e:
    print(f"Validation error: {e}")

The JSON schema file will only be loaded from disk on the first validation to improve the performance of subsequent validations.

To force a validation to reload the schema file from disk, set force_reload=True.

validate_json(my_json, schema_path, force_reload=True)

SHACL Validation

The SHACL validator provides a wrapper around Telicent's own shacl-tool. It validates a rdf graph against the shacl and ontology triples of the base ontology being used and any domain specific extensions. For example, you might be using the FOAF base ontology but have extended some of the classes; for example:

@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix myont: <http://example.com/ontology/my-domain-specific-ontology#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

myont:Child rdfs:subClassOf foaf:Person .

shacl_parts and ontology_parts are lists of paths to turtle files. This allows us to fuse shacl and ontology files applicable to the graph requiring validation.

from rdflib import Graph, URIRef, Literal, XSD
from telicent_validation_tool import TelicentValidationError, validate_rdf_turtle

graph: Graph = Graph()
graph.add(
    URIRef("http://example.com/data/nick_smith"),
    URIRef("http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type"),
    URIRef("http://example.com/ontology/my-domain-specific-ontology#Child")
)
graph.add(
    URIRef("http://example.com/data/nick_smith"),
    URIRef("http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name"),
    Literal("Nick Smith", datatype=XSD.string)
)

shacl_parts: list = [
    '/path/to/foaf-base-ontology.shacl.ttl'
    '/path/to/my-domain-specific.shacl.ttl'
]
ontology_parts: list = [
    '/path/to/foaf-base-ontology.ttl'
    '/path/to/my-domain-specific-ontology.ttl'
]

try:
    validate_rdf_turtle(graph, shacl_parts, ontology_parts)
except TelicentValidationError as e:
    print(f"Validation error: {e}")