api-validator.js

A nodejs lib and command line tool powered by JSON Schema to validate web API output

# [You provide] to api-validator.js , (it do):
[Test Plan] + [API Request Lists] -> (Make Requests) +
                              [API Response Schemas] + -> (Validation!) = (CI for API!)

# In future the whole picture:
[API Spec] -> (Document generation)
           -> (Mock API Server)
           -> (API Request Lists) +
                      (Test Plan) + -> (Make Requests) +
           ->                   (API Response Schemas) + -> (Validation!) = (CI for API!)

Features

• JSON Schema V4 Draft Validation (powered by jjv)
• load schema files
• handle both remote $ref http://... or relative file $ref file://../.
• API Validation - fetch , save , validate , report
• describe API request and JSON Schema pairs by yaml file
• make API requests and save response as json files
• validate on these response
• output validation results
• output different test report formats (powered by mocha reports)
• Command line tool
• Validate your schema files TODO
• List and fetch referenced remote schema files TODO
• API Validation
• Customize
• Authorize requests TODO
• test on YQL tables
• test by API blueprint TODO

Command Line Usage

Step 1. Make a plan

# plan.yaml
requestYaml: requests.yaml
schemaDir: mySchema/path
prefix: myResults/output/file_
reportJSON: finalReport/file.json
requestConfig:
  timeout: 500

Step 2. List requests

# request.yaml
- url: http://apihost/endpoint1
  schema: schema_name1
- url: http://apihost/endpoint2
  schema: schema_name2
- yql: select * from sometable
  schema: schema_name3

Step 3. Validate!

api-validator.js plan.yaml > results.json

Will output full context into results.json and exit with 0 when pass.

Step 4. (optional) Run with Mocha

Run with mocha then you can using any mocha reporter to see test results. You need to prepare a test.js like this:

require('api-validator').mocha('results.json');

Then run mocha:

mocha test.js

The output will be:

  API Validator tests reports by test/yaml/example_yql_plan.yaml
    ✓ Task "validatePlan" should be executed
    ✓ Task "loadSchemas" should be executed
    ✓ Task "loadRequestList" should be executed
    ✓ Task "preValidateRequests" should be executed
    ✓ Task "prepareRequest" should be executed
    ✓ Task "validateRequests" should be executed
    ✓ Task "request" should be executed
    ✓ Task "save" should be executed
    ✓ Task "validate" should be executed
    ✓ [Saved in file_0001.json] https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql should pass schema "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zordius/api-validator.js/master/schemas/yql.json#/definitions/result"
    ✓ [Saved in file_0002.json] https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql should pass schema "example://yql.yahoo.com/show_tables"


  11 passing (7ms)

Good JSON Schema practices

• file name: *.json or *.schema.json
• title , id and $schema are required
• Refer to any resources by correct URI. (GOOD: "$ref": "http://real.host/real.json#" , bad: "$ref": "any_name" )
• Use definitions and $ref to decouple schema into many sub schemas
• Reuse sub schemas

Check boundled schemas to see examples.