ActiveRecord::JSONValidator
makes it easy to validate
JSON attributes against a JSON schema.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'activerecord_json_validator'
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema",
"properties": {
"city": { "type": "string" },
"country": { "type": "string" }
},
"required": ["country"]
}
create_table "users" do |t|
t.string "name"
t.json "profile" # First-class JSON with PostgreSQL, yo.
end
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
# Constants
PROFILE_JSON_SCHEMA = Rails.root.join('config', 'schemas', 'profile.json_schema').to_s
# Validations
validates :name, presence: true
validates :profile, presence: true, json: { schema: PROFILE_JSON_SCHEMA }
end
user = User.new(name: 'Samuel Garneau', profile: { city: 'Quebec City' })
user.valid? # => false
user = User.new(name: 'Samuel Garneau', profile: { city: 'Quebec City', country: 'Canada' })
user.valid? # => true
user = User.new(name: 'Samuel Garneau', profile: '{invalid JSON":}')
user.valid? # => false
user.profile_invalid_json # => '{invalid JSON":}'
Option | Description |
---|---|
:schema |
The JSON schema to validate the data against (see Schema section) |
:message |
The ActiveRecord message added to the record errors (see Message section) |
:options |
A Hash of json-schema -supported options to pass to the validator |
ActiveRecord::JSONValidator
uses the json-schema
gem to validate the JSON
data against a JSON schema. You can use any value that
JSON::Validator.validate
would take as the schema
argument.
Additionally, you can use a Symbol
or a Proc
. Both will be executed in the
context of the validated record (Symbol
will be sent as a method and the
Proc
will be instance_exec
ed)
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
# Constants
PROFILE_REGULAR_JSON_SCHEMA = Rails.root.join('config', 'schemas', 'profile.json_schema').to_s
PROFILE_ADMIN_JSON_SCHEMA = Rails.root.join('config', 'schemas', 'profile_admin.json_schema').to_s
# Validations
validates :profile, presence: true, json: { schema: lambda { dynamic_profile_schema } } # `schema: :dynamic_profile_schema` would also work
def dynamic_profile_schema
admin? ? PROFILE_ADMIN_JSON_SCHEMA : PROFILE_REGULAR_JSON_SCHEMA
end
end
Like any other ActiveModel validation, you can specify either a Symbol
or
String
value for the :message
option. The default value is :invalid_json
.
However, you can also specify a Proc
that returns an array of errors. The
Proc
will be called with a single argument — an array of errors returned by
the JSON schema validator. So, if you’d like to add each of these errors as
a first-level error for the record, you can do this:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
# Validations
validates :profile, presence: true, json: { message: ->(errors) { errors }, schema: 'foo.json_schema' }
end
user = User.new.tap(&:valid?)
user.errors.full_messages
# => [
# 'The property '#/email' of type Fixnum did not match the following type: string in schema 2d44293f-cd9d-5dca-8a6a-fb9db1de722b#',
# 'The property '#/full_name' of type Fixnum did not match the following type: string in schema 2d44293f-cd9d-5dca-8a6a-fb9db1de722b#',
# ]
ActiveRecord::JSONValidator
is © 2013-2015 Mirego and may be freely distributed under the New BSD license. See the LICENSE.md
file.
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