Quickstart

Installation

pip install dirschema

Getting Started

The dirschema tool needs as input:

• a DirSchema YAML file (containing a specification), and
• a path to a directory or file (e.g. zip file) that should be checked.

You can run it like this:

dirschema my_dirschema.yaml DIRECTORY_OR_ARCHIVE_PATH

If the validation was successful, there will be no output. Otherwise, the tool will output a list of errors (e.g. invalid metadata, missing files, etc.).

You can also use dirschema from other Python code as a library:

from dirschema.validate import DSValidator
DSValidator("/path/to/dirschema").validate("/dataset/path")

Similarly, the method will return an error dict, which will be empty if the validation succeeded.