survey-json-schema

Library for building interactive terminal inputs by using JSON schema.

How this works

Library can be used to build interactive mode for golang terminal applications like Cobra (https://github.com/spf13/cobra) etc. Library uses JSON schema as specification for questions and survey go library to execute them (https://github.com/AlecAivazis/survey). Developers will get JSON files containing answers from the user that conform to specified JSON schema.

In typical execution library will:

• Read and process input JSON Schema file
• Traverse JSON schema to create number of questions expecting specific types as answer
• Validate user input against schema spec
• Merge supplied defaults with the answers provided by users

Usage as CLI

Project provides an CLI that reads JSON schema as file input. To run cli with your local json schema execute

go get github.com/jackdelahunt/survey-json-schema
askjschema --file=jsonschema.json

You can also use remote json schema

 askjschema --file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wtrocki/survey-json-schema/main/pkg/surveyjson/test_data/basicTypes.test.schema.json

CLI binary files are also available from Github releases.

Usage as library

Add library to dependencies

go get github.com/jackdelahunt/survey-json-schema

Add this sample code to your cobra handler method

    import("github.com/jackdelahunt/survey-json-schema/pkg/surveyjson")

    // Creates JSONSchema based of
    options := surveyjson.JSONSchemaOptions{
        Out:                 os.Stdout,
        In:                  os.Stdin,
        OutErr:              os.Stderr,
        AskExisting:         true,
        AutoAcceptDefaults:  false,
        NoAsk:               false,
        IgnoreMissingValues: false,
    }

    yourSchema := ""
    initialValues := make(map[string]interface{})
    result, err := options.GenerateValues(yourSchema, initialValues)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    fmt.Fprint(os.Stdin, string(result))

For fully functional example see pkg/cmd/ask.go file

Features

Supported JSON Schema properties

• String (including specific formating for dates, emails etc.)
• Boolean
• Number
• Null
• Object
• Enum
• AllOf
• If

Defaults from environment variables

Library can fetch default values for properties from environment variables. Env var should be constructed as SURVEYVALUE{JSON_SCHEMA_PATH}. For example:

SURVEY_VALUE_USER_AGE=3

Source

Library is basing on JSONSchema processor code originally contributed by Pete Muir for JenkinsX project.