Does anyone out there have a favourite Github Action(s) for validating JSON and YAML files? There’re a few out there and I’m curious whether anyone has had good/bad experiences with any of them.
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Hey @dougiesquire !
So it’s funny you say that…I’ve created a workflow that does just that as part of build-ci (at least, for the JSON side of things…) 
found here: https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/build-ci/blob/main/.github/workflows/validate-json.yml
You can invoke it in your own workflows with:
- uses: access-nri/build-ci/.github/workflows/validate-json.yml@main
with:
src: "some/directory"
Note that the *.json and *.schema.json files need to be in the same src directory for now, but if there’s appetite this can be changed 
It essentially checks if name.json conforms to the name.schema.json.
Under the hood it’s simply a call to pips jsonschema package, of which many implementations exist - if you wanted to customize it a bit more!
Let me know if you need a hand with it!
In terms of actions that can do both, your best bet might be GrantBirki/json-yaml-validate
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@SeanBryan51 @ben Should we look into that for bench_example? There aren’t many changes coming into that file so maybe not a priority.
The config validation branch I am about to merge validates yaml against a schema. It should be straightforward to load the methods out of benchcab and use in an action.