@roadiehq/backstage-entity-validator-test-ci v0.3.9-test

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 seperated by comma users.yaml,orgs/company.yaml.

verbose

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

Outputs

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

Example usage

- uses:  RoadieHQ/backstage-entity-validator@v0.3.2
  with:
    path: 'catalog-info-1.yaml'

- uses:  RoadieHQ/backstage-entity-validator@v0.3.2
  with:
    path: 'catalog-info-1.yaml,catalog-info-2.yaml,catalog-info-3.yaml'

- uses:  RoadieHQ/backstage-entity-validator@v0.3.2
  with:
    path: 'catalog-info-*.yaml,services/**/*/catalog-info.yaml'

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/backstage-entity-validator@0.3.0"
  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

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