Explore support for SPDX 3.x validation and conformance with JSON-LD

[mrutkows]

As it appears official JSON schema support (via serialization) has been abandoned we must look to see what we can do with JSON-LD and limited support for it in Golang...

References:

• A.1 Differences between V3.0 and V2.3 : https://github.com/spdx/using/blob/main/docs/diffs-from-previous-editions.md/
• "hello world" example: https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/blob/support/3.0/examples/jsonld/package_sbom.json
  • Use as a starting point (testcase)

See: https://github.com/piprate/json-gold/

e.g.,

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/piprate/json-gold/ld"
)

func processAndValidateJSONLD(jsonData string) error {
	proc := ld.NewJsonLdProcessor()
	options := ld.NewJsonLdOptions()
	// Set the processing mode to the latest spec (e.g., "json-ld-1.1")
	options.ProcessingMode = "json-ld-1.1" 

	// The Expand function will return an error if the JSON-LD is invalid
	expandedDoc, err := proc.Expand("https://example.com/some-base-url", jsonData, options)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("JSON-LD validation error: %w", err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("JSON-LD document successfully processed (expanded), contains %d top-level elements.\n", len(expandedDoc.([]interface{})))
	return nil
}

func main() {
	doc := `{
		"@context": "

[mrutkows]

In addition, we could look to "flatten" the JSON-LD to JSON format for other functions in the utility (e.g., list) itself...

// Flatten the document to a standard JSON format
	flattenedDoc, err := processor.Flatten(inputInterf, nil, options)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Error flattening JSON-LD: %v", err)
	}

	// 3. Marshal the flattened document (which is now a standard map[string]interface{})
	// back into a plain JSON formatted byte slice
	plainJSONBytes, err := json.MarshalIndent(flattenedDoc, "", "  ")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Error marshalling to plain JSON: %v", err)
	}

	// Convert bytes to string and print
	fmt.Println("--- Plain JSON Output ---")
	fmt.Println(string(plainJSONBytes))