Open Source Objective-C Library For Easily Validating JSON Data

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Earlier this month I mentioned a nice open source library for string and number validation.

Here’s an objective-c library called RPJSONvalidator from Reynaldo Goznales specifically for validating JSON data before it is mapped.

Here’s an example snippet from the readme showing how easy it is to validate some json data – given this of json data dictionary:

NSDictionary *json = @{
@"phoneNumber" : @"123-555-6789",
@"name" : @"Johnny Ringo",
@"age" : @"BANANA",
@"weight" : @"130.3",
@"ssn" : [NSNull null],
@"children" : @[],
@"parents" : @[
@{
@"name" : @"Mickey"
},
@{
@"name" : @"Minnie"
}
]
};

And the validator for this data:

NSError *error;

[RPJSONValidator validateValuesFrom:json
withRequirements:@{
@"phoneNumber" : [RPValidatorPredicate.isString lengthIsGreaterThanOrEqualTo:@7],
@"name" : RPValidatorPredicate.isString,
@"age" : RPValidatorPredicate.isNumber.isOptional,
@"weight" : RPValidatorPredicate.isString,
@"ssn" : RPValidatorPredicate.isNull,
@"height" : RPValidatorPredicate.isString,
@"children" : RPValidatorPredicate.isArray,
@"parents" : [RPValidatorPredicate.isArray lengthIsGreaterThan:@1]
} error:&error];