This module can be used as a library to validate dictionary against the schema (schema is the first document in the file).

VNF-SDK validation library (dictionaryvalidation) should be used to validate the Dictionary file. Below dependency should be added to the required modules in your project.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.onap.vnfsdk.validation</groupId>
        <artifactId>validation-dictionary</artifactId>
        <version>version</version>
    </dependency>

1.Validate Dictionary from a path to the file.

new YamlContentValidator().validate(pathToFile)

2.Validate Dictionary file from the byte array.

new YamlContentValidator().validate(fileContentAsByteArray)

Above methods return list of YamlDocumentValidationError(empty list for no errors) or throw YamlProcessingException/YAMLException when something goes wrong.