README.rst

ZSchema

ZSchema is a generic (meta-)schema language for defining database schemas that facilitates (1) validating JSON documents against a schema definition and (2) compilation into multiple database engines. For example, if you wanted to maintain a single database schema for both MongoDB and ElasticSearch. Properties can also be documented inline and documentation compiled to HTML or a console-friendly text document.

Currently, a schema is defined natively in Python. Example:

Record({
    "name":String(required=True),
    "addresses":ListOf(SubRecord({
        "street":String(),
        "zipcode":String()
    }),
    "area_code":Integer()
})

Command Line Interface

zschema [command] [schema] [file]

Commands:

• elasticsearch (compile to Elastic Search)
• bigquery (compile to Google BigQuery)
• json (compile documentation to JSON)
• text (compile documentation to plain text)
• html (compile documentation to HTML)
• validate (validate JSON file (one document per line) against schema)

The schema file can be defined on the command line as module:var.

Running Tests

Tests are run with nose. Run them via python setup.py test.