Schema validation

This section contains different examples of validating JSON responses using the Ajv schema validator. I do not recommend using the tv4 (Tiny Validator for JSON Schema v4).

Response is an object

This is the JSON response:

{}

This is the JSON schema:

const schema = {
    "type": "object"
};

And here is the test:

pm.test("Validate schema", () => {
    pm.response.to.have.jsonSchema(schema);
});

Object has optional property

This is the JSON response:

{
    "code": "FX002"
}

This is the JSON schema with a property named code of type String:

const schema = {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "code": { "type": "string" }
    }
};

Possible types are:

• string
• number
• integer
• boolean
• null
• object
• array

Object has required property

Given this JSON response:

{
    "code": "FX002"
}

This is the JSON schema with a property named “code” of type String that is mandatory:

const schema = {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "code": { "type": "string" }
    },
    "required": ["code"]
};

Nested objects

Given this JSON response:

{
    "code": "2",
    "error": {
        "message": "Not permitted."
    }
}

This is the JSON schema with the an nested object named “error” that has a property named “message” that is a string.

const schema = {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "code": { "type": "string" },
        "error": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
                "message": { "type": "string" }
            },
            "required": ["message"]
        }
    },
    "required": ["code", "error"]
};