Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH 0/8] bitbake-setup JSON Schema: Fix linting errors

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Mon Apr 6, 2026 at 7:21 PM CEST, Rob Woolley via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> This series fixes some linting errors in the JSON Schema.  Problems
> were found using the https://github.com/sourcemeta/jsonschema tool.
>
> Here are the steps used to install and use the tool to lint the schemas:
>
>   python3 -m venv venv
>   source venv/bin/activate
>   pip install sourcemeta-jsonschema
>   jsonschema lint bitbake-setup.schema.json
>   jsonschema lint layers.schema.json
>
> This allowed me to use jsonschema to validate the BitBake Configuration File:
>   jsonschema validate path/to/bitbake-setup.schema.json oe-nodistro-master.conf.json
>
> There are 2 outstanding types of linting errors related to the use of hyphen
> in the property names and the enum currently having only one value:
>
>   Set `properties` to identifier names that can be easily mapped to programming
>   languages (matching [A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*) (simple_properties_identifiers).
>
>   An `enum` of a single value can be expressed as `const` (enum_to_const)
>
> The former would require a larger discussion and potentially increasing the
> version number. Updating the enum to include a new version would also resolve
> the latter error.
>
> I do not believe that the changes in this series merit increasing the version
> of the schema.
>
> Resolving these outstanding errors is not necessary for validating the
> Bitbake Configuration files.

Hi Rob,

Thanks for you series.

It looks like some selftests are now failing:

2026-04-07 08:44:43,890 - oe-selftest - INFO - bblayers.BitbakeLayers.test_bitbakelayers_setup (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-04-07 08:44:43,891 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
...
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-debian/build/build-st-1874443/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/python3-jsonschema-native/4.26.0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/jsonschema:5: DeprecationWarning: The jsonschema CLI is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please use check-jsonschema instead, which can be installed from https://pypi.org/project/check-jsonschema/
  from jsonschema.cli import main
{'version': '1.0', 'sources': {'bitbake': {'git-remote': {'remotes': {'origin': {'uri': 'https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake'}}, 'branch': 'master', 'rev': 'master'}, 'path': 'bitbake'}}}: {'version': '1.0', 'sources': {'bitbake': {'git-remote': {'remotes': {'origin': {'uri': 'https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake'}}, 'branch': 'master', 'rev': 'master'}, 'path': 'bitbake'}}} is not of type 'array'
...
2026-04-07 08:45:39,329 - oe-selftest - INFO - bblayers.BitbakeLayers.test_bitbakelayers_updatelayer (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-04-07 08:45:39,331 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
...
2026-04-07 08:45:39,594 - oe-selftest - INFO - bblayers.BitbakeLayers.test_validate_bitbake_setup_default_registry (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-04-07 08:45:39,594 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
...

2026-04-07 08:45:39,819 - oe-selftest - INFO - bblayers.BitbakeLayers.test_validate_examplelayersjson (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-04-07 08:45:39,820 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/3617
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/48/builds/3499

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
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