JSON Data Validation Tool

Overview:

This tool is designed to validate JSON data files against predefined JSON schemas using the JSON Schema validation library. It provides a command-line interface (CLI) for easy usage when working with web based files and generates a detailed report highlighting any validation errors encountered.

Features:

• Validate JSON data files against JSON schemas.
• Supports both in-network and out-of-network schema validation.
• Detailed error reporting with error type, message, schema path, and requirement.
• Ability to limit the number of reported errors.

Installation:

• Clone this repository to your local machine

• Install the required dependencies using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage:

For Local File Validation:

• Download and place your JSON data files in the jsonFiles directory.
• Run the local file validation tool using the following command in the Terminal:
• python local_file_validator.py --file --schema
• Example For an In-Network File: python local_file_validator.py --file jsonFiles/inn_file.json --schema schemas/inn_schema.json

For URL Validation:

• Run the Url validation tool using the following command in the Terminal:

python url_validator.py --schema --url

• Example For an Allowed_Amounts File:

python url_validator.py --schema schemas/oon_schema.json --url https://mrf.healthcare.com/Health/123456

• Check the generated report in the reports directory for validation results.

Error Limiting:

• Currently, there is a 1000 error limit set in the validation tool. This means that if the tool encounters more than 1000 errors
• it will stop reporting errors and display a message indicating that the error limit has been reached.
• This is intended to prevent the tool from getting stuck in an infinite loop when encountering a large number of errors.
• To change the error limit for the local_file_validator, modify the error_limit variable in the code.
• Ex: error_limit = 1000 # Hardcoded error limit
• To change the error limit or disable it entirely for the url_validator, you can modify the error_limit variable in the code just as above or pass the argument '--no-limit' to the command line script.
• Ex: python url_validator.py --schema schemas/oon_schema.json --url https://mrf.healthcare.com/Health/123456 --no-limit

Updating

• To update pip to the latest version, run the following command in the terminal:

python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip

Docker

• If you want to use docker run this and edit the reporting path section to setup the reporting files location: docker run -it --rm -v *reporting*\validator\reports:/app/reports validator_tool --schema schemas/inn_schema.json --url https://mrf.health.com/health/123456

License:

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.