Validate

Description

This command allows you validate files.

It will not modify the source data in any way.

Available since v1.25.0.

Usage

dasel validate a.json b.yaml files/*.json

Flags

--include-error	Tells dasel to output to include/exclude the error when a file fails validation. Default to true.

Example

Validate an entire directory

$ dasel validate tests/assets/*
fail tests/assets/broken.json could not load input: could not unmarshal data: invalid character '}' after array element
fail tests/assets/broken.xml could not load input: could not unmarshal data: xml.Decoder.Token() - XML syntax error on line 1: element <a> closed by </b>
pass tests/assets/deployment.yaml
pass tests/assets/example.json
pass tests/assets/example.xml
pass tests/assets/example.yaml
Error: 2 files failed validation

Validate a subset of files

$ dasel validate tests/assets/example.*
pass tests/assets/example.json
pass tests/assets/example.xml
pass tests/assets/example.yaml

Validate specific files

$ dasel validate tests/assets/example.json tests/assets/example.yaml
pass tests/assets/example.json
pass tests/assets/example.yaml

Pre-Commit

Add dasel hooks to .pre-commit-config.yaml file

- repo: https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
  rev: v1.25.1
  hooks:
    - id: dasel-validate

for a native execution of dasel, or use:

• dasel-validate-docker pre-commit hook for executing dasel using the official Docker images
• dasel-validate-bin pre-commit hook for executing dasel using the official binary