feat(validate): add ability to further constrain schema #2677
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This is in response to a discussion had with our friends at Paradigm.
The request was:
We leverage CUE under the hood to power
flipt validate
and this is driven by our flipt feature CUE schema:flipt/internal/cue/flipt.cue
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This proposed change adds the ability to extend this schema with your own valid subset of this schema.
flipt validate -e extended.cue features.json
Taking the original request to be able to make e.g. description required, this could be achieved with the following extensions to the base schema (in extended.cue):
This adds to the existing
#Flag
definition and says that description is required (drops the?
) and that is must be a non-empty string (matches the regexp=~"^.+$"
).Taking the following JSON example in a file named
features.json
:Without the extended CUE definition,
flipt validate
will pass:However, by passing in the extended CUE definition via
-e
(short for--extra-schema
) we can add the restrictions: