JSON Schema Validator

Since Camel 2.20

Only producer is supported

The JSON Schema Validator component performs bean validation of the message body against JSON Schemas v4, v6, v7 and v2019-09 draft using the NetworkNT JSON Schema library (https://github.com/networknt/json-schema-validator).

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-json-validator</artifactId>
    <version>x.y.z</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

URI format

json-validator:resourceUri[?options]

Where resourceUri is some URL to a local resource on the classpath or a full URL to a remote resource or resource on the file system which contains the JSON Schema to validate against.

URI Options

The JSON Schema Validator component supports 2 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

lazyStartProducer (producer)

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

basicPropertyBinding (advanced)

Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities

false

boolean

The JSON Schema Validator endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

json-validator:resourceUri

with the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (1 parameters):

Name Description Default Type

resourceUri

Required Path to the resource. You can prefix with: classpath, file, http, ref, or bean. classpath, file and http loads the resource using these protocols (classpath is default). ref will lookup the resource in the registry. bean will call a method on a bean to be used as the resource. For bean you can specify the method name after dot, eg bean:myBean.myMethod.

String

Query Parameters (10 parameters):

Name Description Default Type

allowContextMapAll (producer)

Sets whether the context map should allow access to all details. By default only the message body and headers can be accessed. This option can be enabled for full access to the current Exchange and CamelContext. Doing so impose a potential security risk as this opens access to the full power of CamelContext API.

false

boolean

contentCache (producer)

Sets whether to use resource content cache or not

false

boolean

failOnNullBody (producer)

Whether to fail if no body exists.

true

boolean

failOnNullHeader (producer)

Whether to fail if no header exists when validating against a header.

true

boolean

headerName (producer)

To validate against a header instead of the message body.

String

lazyStartProducer (producer)

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

basicPropertyBinding (advanced)

Whether the endpoint should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities

false

boolean

errorHandler (advanced)

To use a custom ValidatorErrorHandler. The default error handler captures the errors and throws an exception.

JsonValidatorErrorHandler

schemaLoader (advanced)

To use a custom schema loader allowing for adding custom format validation. The default implementation will create a schema loader with draft v4 support.

JsonSchemaLoader

synchronous (advanced)

Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).

false

boolean

Example

Assumed we have the following JSON Schema

myschema.json

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
  "definitions": {},
  "id": "my-schema",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "default": 1,
      "description": "An explanation about the purpose of this instance.",
      "id": "/properties/id",
      "title": "The id schema",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "name": {
      "default": "A green door",
      "description": "An explanation about the purpose of this instance.",
      "id": "/properties/name",
      "title": "The name schema",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "price": {
      "default": 12.5,
      "description": "An explanation about the purpose of this instance.",
      "id": "/properties/price",
      "title": "The price schema",
      "type": "number"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "name",
    "id",
    "price"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

we can validate incoming JSON with the following Camel route, where myschema.json is loaded from the classpath.

from("direct:start")
  .to("json-validator:myschema.json")
  .to("mock:end")

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using json-validator with Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-json-validator-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

The component supports 3 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

camel.component.json-validator.basic-property-binding

Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities

false

Boolean

camel.component.json-validator.enabled

Whether to enable auto configuration of the json-validator component. This is enabled by default.

Boolean

camel.component.json-validator.lazy-start-producer

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

Boolean
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