Argo Metadata Validator

Validator for ARGO sensor metadata JSON.

Schema definitions are taken from https://github.com/euroargodev/sensor_metadata_json.

Package: https://pypi.org/project/argo-metadata-validator

Usage

Installation

Install the package from PyPi with

pip install argo-metadata-validator

From the Terminal

Once installed, you can run the tool to validate files from the terminal (Bash, Powershell, etc.) as follows

argo-validate file_1.json,file_2.json

To output the results to a JSON file you can specify a path for this, e.g.

argo-validate input/file_1.json --output-file output/results.json

To see the available CLI options you can run argo-validate --help.

From Python

As well as the command-line script version the validator can be used as a Python package, e.g. from Python scripts or Jupyter notebooks.

See demos/argo_validator.ipynb for an example of how to validate and parse input metadata from within Python scripts.

Development

Poetry is used to manage the building of this package and managing the package dependencies.

To run the script locally:

• poetry install
• poetry run argo-validate

For example, from the root of the repo

poetry run argo-validate tests/files/valid_sensor.json

To run lint/tests, first install dev dependencies poetry install --with dev

• poetry run task lint - Check linting
• poetry run task format - Autofix lint errors (where possible)
• poetry run task test - Run unit tests

Releasing a new version

This done by creating a new release in Github. Make sure the created tag follows SemVer conventions.