JSON Validation Service in Go

Introduction

This service is designed to validate a JSON document against a JSON schema that can both be uploaded by the user.

This is my first attempt at a Go application, having had no prior experience with the language. I followed a few tutorials online on how to create REST endpoints in Go before beginning.

Dependencies

In order to run this application, you must first install the dependencies. These include:

Gorilla Mux. This is used for routing incoming requests.

go get github.com/gorilla/mux

JSON Schema. This is used for validating a JSON document against a JSON schema.

go get github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema

Testify Assert. This makes unit tests more readable.

github.com/stretchr/testify/assert

Running the Application

go run main.go

Then try out the following three curl requests:

curl http://localhost:8080/schema/2 -X POST -d @test-resources/test-schema.json
curl http://localhost:8080/schema/2 -X GET
curl http://localhost:8080/validate/2 -X POST -d @test-resources/test-config.json

Unit Testing

For running unit tests, you will need to install Testify.

go get github.com/stretchr/testify

To run the unit tests:

go test