Jsonapi Checker Library

Overview

This library let you to validate an API against the JSON API specifications. And it exposes the rules defined by these specifications.

You can see a UI which uses this library here : https://jsonapi-spec-validator-ui.herokuapp.com/

For more information on JSON API : http://jsonapi.org

This library is used in the following stack (but can be used alone) :

• UI : ReactJS + json-api-store + bootstrap
• Server : hapi (nodejs)
• JSON API validation library : built on Chai (nodejs)

Use

Installation

npm i --save jsonapi-checker-lib

Validation

Validate a payload :

const validate = require('jsonapi-checker-lib').validator;
validate(body).to.be.a.ValidDocument(options);

validate(header).to.be.ValidHeaders();

validate(url).to.be.a.ValidUrl()

The options parameter can contain :

• fromClient : true if the payload is sent by the client to the server
• method : HTTP method of the request (GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE,...)

Get the rules

# rules is a multi-level object
const rules = require('jsonapi-checker-lib').rules.list;
# flatRules is a one level object
const flatRules = require('jsonapi-checker-lib').rules.flat;

Tests

npm test

Quality

check-build

More info on the check-build tool : https://github.com/FGRibreau/check-build