python jsonschema remove additional and use defaults

Question

I'm using the python jsonschema https://python-jsonschema.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ and I'm trying to find how to use default values and remove additional fields when found.

anyone know how am I suppose to do it? or maybe have another solution to validate jsonschema that supports default values and remove any additional field (like js avj)?

Answer 1

Hidden in the FAQs you'll find this

Why doesn't my schema's default property set the default on my instance? The basic answer is that the specification does not require that default actually do anything.

For an inkling as to why it doesn't actually do anything, consider that none of the other validators modify the instance either. More importantly, having default modify the instance can produce quite peculiar things. It's perfectly valid (and perhaps even useful) to have a default that is not valid under the schema it lives in! So an instance modified by the default would pass validation the first time, but fail the second!

Still, filling in defaults is a thing that is useful. jsonschema allows you to define your own validator classes and callables, so you can easily create an jsonschema.IValidator that does do default setting. Here's some code to get you started. (In this code, we add the default properties to each object before the properties are validated, so the default values themselves will need to be valid under the schema.)

from jsonschema import Draft4Validator, validators


def extend_with_default(validator_class):
    validate_properties = validator_class.VALIDATORS["properties"]

    def set_defaults(validator, properties, instance, schema):
        for property, subschema in properties.iteritems():
            if "default" in subschema:
                instance.setdefault(property, subschema["default"])

        for error in validate_properties(
            validator, properties, instance, schema,
        ):
            yield error

    return validators.extend(
        validator_class, {"properties" : set_defaults},
    )


DefaultValidatingDraft4Validator = extend_with_default(Draft4Validator)


# Example usage:
obj = {}
schema = {'properties': {'foo': {'default': 'bar'}}}
# Note jsonschem.validate(obj, schema, cls=DefaultValidatingDraft4Validator)
# will not work because the metaschema contains `default` directives.
DefaultValidatingDraft4Validator(schema).validate(obj)
assert obj == {'foo': 'bar'}

From: https://python-jsonschema.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq/#why-doesn-t-my-schema-s-default-property-set-the-default-on-my-instance