kirill: JSON validator

ABOUT

kirill scans projects large and small for JSON correctness:

• Check for basic JSON(5) syntactical validity
• Identify JSON(5) files recursively in large project directories
• Verify compliance with a JSON Schema

EXAMPLES

% cd examples

% kirill .
error: fruit-missing-end-brace.json: EOF while parsing an object at line 3 column 0
error: fruit-trailing-comma.json: trailing comma at line 3 column 1
error: fruit-unquoted-key.json: key must be a string at line 2 column 5
error: fruit-with-comment.json: expected value at line 1 column 1
error: settings.json: expected value at line 1 column 1

% kirill --schema species.json zoo
error: zoo/bad-bear.json: Missing required property 'species'

% kirill books.json5
error: books.json5: expected value at line 9 column 9

% kirill --json5 books.json5
%

DOWNLOAD

cargo install kirill

Prerequisites

• cargo

Postinstall

Register ~/.cargo/bin to PATH environment variable.

For details on tuning kirill, see CONFIGURATION.

For details on building from source, see DEVELOPMENT.

RESOURCES

Prior art, personal plugs, and tools for managing data.

• jq - styles and transforms JSON documents
• mcandre/linters - a collection of file analyzers

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