Can I use one schema to validate multiple csv files?

[lwinfree]

is there a way to override path in the yaml?
my goal is to hand someone else a description so that they can validate all their files.
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[lwinfree]

tagging @roll to take a look :-)

[jm-moreau]

Hi there, yes I wondered if I could use frictionless to write a general description that can be used for a bunch of .csv files. Is there way to omit path in the description.yaml then provide it from the command line during validation?

[roll]

Yes, using the Table Schema:

$ frictionless describe --type schema table.csv > schema.yaml
$ frictionless validate --schema schema.yaml <any-similiar-table>.csv

[mingfang]

I wish I can do the same with the transform command
e.g. frictionless transform --pipeline pipeline.yaml data.csv

[roll]

Thanks @mingfang,

I created a feature request for it - frictionlessdata/frictionless-py#895

[augusto-herrmann]

You can also reference the same schema in several resources of a data package,

For a working example, see okfn/publicbodies.

In datapackage.json, we reference the schema file several times:

    {
      "path": "data/br.csv",
      "profile": "tabular-data-resource",
      "name": "br",
      "format": "csv",
      "mediatype": "text/csv",
      "schema": "public-body-schema.json"
    },
    {
      "path": "data/ch.csv",
      "profile": "tabular-data-resource",
      "name": "ch",
      "format": "csv",
      "mediatype": "text/csv",
      "schema": "public-body-schema.json"
    },

and the actual schema is on public-body-schema.json.