Python - Validate JSON

The snippet below shows you how you can validate a JSON file against a JSON schema.

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Steps

import json
import jsonschema

# A sample schema, like what we'd get from json.load()
with open('schema.json') as schemaFile:
    schema = json.load(schemaFile)
    jsonschema.Draft7Validator.check_schema(schema)
    print("Schema is valid")

with open('data.json') as dataFile:
    data = json.load(dataFile)

validator = jsonschema.Draft7Validator(schema).validate(data)

# Wont get to here if validation fails, as will throw exception
print("Validation passed.")