When a upper level failed (required field) is not available, child object does not get validated at all

[samw2k00]

When a upper level attribute is missing, the validator stop validating any other child object that exist

eg. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ConsumerDataStandardsAustralia/standards/master/slate/source/includes/swagger/cds_banking.json

the following model:

"ResponseBankingAccountList" : { "type" : "object", "required" : [ "data", "links", "meta" ], "properties" : { "data" : { "$ref" : "#/definitions/ResponseBankingAccountList_data" }, "links" : { "$ref" : "#/definitions/LinksPaginated" }, "meta" : { "$ref" : "#/definitions/MetaPaginated" } } },

When "meta" object is missing. the child of "data" object and "links" object does not get validated at all.

sample data

{ "data": { "accounts": [ { "accountId": "account-1", "displayName": "John Smith 1", "nickname": "my savings 1", "isOwned": true, "maskedNumber": "xxxxxnt-1", "productCategory": "TRANS_AND_SAVINGS_ACCOUNTS", "productName": "S1", "consentStatus": "CONSENTED" }, { "accountId": "account-2", "displayName": "John Smith 2", "nickname": "my savings 2", "isOwned": true, "maskedNumber": "xxxxxnt-2", "productCategory": "TERM_DEPOSITS", "productName": "S2", "consentStatus": "CONSENTED" }, { "accountId": "account-3", "displayName": "John Smith 3", "nickname": "my savings 3", "isOwned": true, "maskedNumber": "xxxxxnt-3", "productCategory": "TRANS_AND_SAVINGS_ACCOUNTS", "productName": "S3", "consentStatus": "CONSENTED" }, { "accountId": "account-4", "displayName": "John Smith 4", "nickname": "my savings 4", "isOwned": true, "maskedNumber": "xxxxxnt-4", "productCategory": "TERM_DEPOSITS", "productName": "S4", "consentStatus": "CONSENTED" }, { "accountId": "account-5", "displayName": "John Smith 5", "nickname": "my savings 5", "isOwned": true, "maskedNumber": "xxxxxnt-5", "productCategory": "TRANS_AND_SAVINGS_ACCOUNTS", "productName": "S5", "consentStatus": "NOT_CONSENTED" } ] }, "links": { "first": "https://localhost:8701/consents/275/accounts?page=1&page-size=25", "self": "https://localhost:8701/consents/275/accounts?page=1&page-size=25", "last": "https://localhost:8701/consents/275/accounts?page=1&page-size=25" } }

[brodyd]

Generally, once we've found a non-match (or error) we stop processing and return the error. This validation is primarily for developer support so we would expect them to keep calling us with progressively better conforming objects rather than communicate all the errors at once. So error paths do return multiple errors - some do not.

In this case you are failing the required test - So because you are missing a required field we are not going to bother testing anything else. We do the required tests first to reduce our processing load on an obejcvt that isn't going to pass anyway.