Questions about header validation

[am17torres]

I have two questions about header validation:

1) Did you intend for header order to matter? In table.js

if (!isEqual(this.headers, this.schema.fieldNames)) {
            const error = new TableSchemaError(
              'The column header names do not match the field names in the schema')

> const _ = require('lodash')
> const a = ['first','second']
> const b = ['second','first']
> _.isEqual(a,b)
false

Is there any reason not to sort them before comparing that the lists are equal?

2) I think this means that a field marked with the constraint required: false still needs to be present in the .csv even if it's missing for all rows. I think this logic needs to be a bit more complex to handle the case where fields are optional in the schema and not present in the content.

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Sorry, this question was missed.

This is an implementation of https://frictionlessdata.io/specs/tabular-data-resource/ where the data columns MUST follow the order of the fields.

There are other tools like https://github.com/frictionlessdata/goodtables-py which is more flexible (e.g. the re-ordering headers option etc)