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How to Validate Request Body JSON Against a Schema in Python

Build a lightweight schema validator to check required fields, types, string lengths, allowed values, and nested objects in a JSON request body.

api-validation json schema-validation
Python 
import json


def validate_against_schema(data, schema, path=""):
    errors = []

    if not isinstance(data, dict):
        errors.append(f"{path}: expected object, got {type(data).__name__}")
        return errors

    for field, rules in schema.items():
        field_path = f"{path}.{field}" if path else field

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