Crate cjval

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§cjval: a validator for CityJSON

A library to validate the syntax of CityJSON objects (CityJSON + CityJSONFeatures).

It validates against the CityJSON schemas and additional functions have been implemented (because these can’t be expressed with JSON Schema).

The following is error checks are performed:

  1. JSON syntax: is the file a valid JSON file?
  2. CityJSON schemas: validation against the schemas (CityJSON v1.0 or v1.1)
  3. Extension schemas: validate against the extra schemas if there’s an Extension in the input file
  4. parents_children_consistency: if a City Object references another in its children, this ensures that the child exists. And that the child has the parent in its parents
  5. wrong_vertex_index: checks if all vertex indices exist in the list of vertices
  6. semantics_array: checks if the arrays for the semantics in the geometries have the same shape as that of the geometry and if the values are consistent
  7. textures: checks if the arrays for the textures are coherent (if the vertices exist + if the texture linked to exists)
  8. materials: checks if the arrays for the materials are coherent with the geometry objects and if material linked to exists

It also verifies the following, these are not errors since the file is still considered valid and usable, but they can make the file larger and some parsers might not understand all the properties:

  1. extra_root_properties: if CityJSON has extra root properties, these should be documented in an Extension. If not this warning is returned
  2. duplicate_vertices: duplicated vertices in vertices are allowed, but they take up spaces and decreases the topological relationships explicitly in the file. If there are any, cjio has the operator clean to fix this automatically.
  3. unused_vertices: vertices that are not referenced in the file, they take extra space. If there are any, cjio has the operator clean to fix this automatically.

§Library + 3 binaries

cjval is a library and has 3 different binaries:

  1. cjval to validate a CityJSON file (it downloads automatically Extensions)
  2. cjfval to validate a stream of CityJSONFeature (from stdin)
  3. cjvalext to validate a CityJSON Extension file

§Example use

extern crate cjval;

fn main() {
    let s1 = std::fs::read_to_string("/Users/hugo/projects/cjval/data/cube.city.json")
        .expect("Couldn't read CityJSON file");
    let v = cjval::CJValidator::from_str(&s1);
    let re = v.validate();
    for (criterion, sum) in re.iter() {
        println!("=== {} ===", criterion);
        println!("{}", sum);
    }
}

§Installation/compilation

§To install the binaries on your system easily

  1. install the Rust compiler
  2. cargo install cjval --features build-binary

Structs§

  • CJValidator
    A validator for CityJSON and CityJSONFeature
  • ValSummary
    Summary of a validation. It is possible that a validation check has not been performed because other checks returned errors (we do not want to have cascading errors).

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