Backstage entity validator

This package can be used as a GitHub action or a standalone node.js module

GitHub action

Inputs

path

Optional Path to the catalog-info.yaml file to validate. Defaults to catalog-info.yaml at the root of the repository. It also can be a glob like services/*/catalog-info.yaml or a list of files separated by comma users.yaml,orgs/company.yaml.

verbose

Optional Specify whether the output should be verbose. Default true.

validationSchemaFileLocation

Optional Specify the location of the validation schema file.

Outputs

None. Prints out the validated YAML on success. Prints out errors on invalid YAML

Example usage

- uses:  RoadieHQ/[email protected]
  with:
    path: 'catalog-info-1.yaml'

- uses:  RoadieHQ/[email protected]
  with:
    path: 'catalog-info-1.yaml,catalog-info-2.yaml,catalog-info-3.yaml'

- uses:  RoadieHQ/[email protected]
  with:
    path: 'catalog-info-*.yaml,services/**/*/catalog-info.yaml'

- uses:  RoadieHQ/[email protected]
  with:
    path: 'catalog-info-*.yaml,services/**/*/catalog-info.yaml'
    validationSchemaFileLocation: 'custom-validation-schema.json'

CircleCI Orb

Inputs

path

Optional Path to the catalog-info.yaml file to validate. Defaults to catalog-info.yaml at the root of the repository.

Outputs

None. Prints out the validated YAML on success. Prints out errors on invalid YAML

Example config

description: >
  Sample catalog-info.yaml validation
usage:
  version: 2.1
  orbs:
    entity-validator: "roadiehq/[email protected]"
  workflows:
    use-entity-validator:
      jobs:
        - entity-validator/validate:
            path: catalog-info.yaml

Using the CLI

Usage

Usage: validate-entity [OPTION] [FILE]

Validates Backstage entity definition files.  Files may be specified as
arguments or via STDIN, one per line.

OPTION:
-h  display help
-q  minimal output while validating entities
-i  validate files provided over standard input
-l  location of custom validation schema file

Examples:

# in a shell

# validate all entities contained in the "catalog" and subfolders
validate-entity catalog/**/*.yaml

# list of files produced by a script to validate
find-relevant-yaml-files.sh | validate-entity -i 

Installing and running

As a global tool

# install
npm install --global @roadiehq/backstage-entity-validator

# run
validate-entity file1.yaml file2.yaml

In an existing node project

# install
npm install --save-dev @roadiehq/backstage-entity-validator

# run
npx validate-entity file1.yaml file2.yaml

When working on this tool

# install
npm install

# run
npm run validate file1.yaml file2.yaml

# or
bin/bev file1.yaml file2.yaml