Package org.eel.kitchen.jsonschema.main

Main schema validation API

See: Description

Class Summary

Class	Description
JsonSchema	The main validation class
JsonSchemaFactory	Factory to build JSON Schema validating instances
JsonSchemaFactory.Builder	Builder class for a JsonSchemaFactory
Keyword	Representation of a schema keyword: its name, syntax checker and validator
Keyword.Builder	Builder class for a new keyword

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
JsonSchemaException	Generic exception thrown when the validation cannot proceed normally

Package org.eel.kitchen.jsonschema.main Description

Main schema validation API

This package contains all classes you need to validate your data.

Start by building a JsonSchemaFactory, then use it to build JsonSchema instances (one per schema).

JsonSchema is thread-safe and immutable (and concurrent-friendly), you can therefore use a single instance to validate any amount of data. Typically, if you use a single schema, you can make that one instante private static final.

One important thing to remember is that JsonSchema also does syntax validation, and that syntax validation is done on demand. The reasons for this is as follows:

• recursive schema validation would also require that JSON references be processed, resolved, and recursively checked as well;
• some parts of a schema may not be used at all during instance validation.

You can also customize your schema factory (via the builder) in several ways. See org.eel.kitchen.jsonschema.examples.