Validate an exported OneRoster 1.2 CSV bundle against its manifest.csv before treating it as complete
domain: education · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Parse manifest.csv as a simple long-format table with exactly two columns, propertyName and value — one property/value pair per row, per the 1EdTech OneRoster CSV Binding spec, not a wide table with one column per file.
Confirm manifest.version and oneroster.version rows are present and that oneroster.version matches the version (1.2) the bundle claims to implement.
For every file.<table> property (e.g. file.orgs, file.users, file.classes, file.enrollments, file.academicSessions, file.courses), verify the declared value is bulk, delta, or absent, and cross-check against the zip contents: a file marked bulk or delta must actually be present, and one marked absent must not be.
Read the source.systemName / source.systemCode rows where present to confirm the exporting system identity matches what's expected for this feed before ingesting.
Treat the manifest as the authoritative file inventory: reject the bundle if any CSV file physically present isn't declared in the manifest, or any file declared bulk/delta is missing from the zip, before running per-row validation on the individual data files.
Known gotchas
manifest.csv is strictly a propertyName/value pair list rather than per-file metadata like row counts or hashes — validating against the manifest mainly means checking each file's declared bulk/delta/absent status against what's actually in the zip.
A bundle can be structurally valid CSV yet silently fail manifest cross-checks if a downstream consumer only reads the data files and never parses manifest.csv first — always gate ingestion on the manifest check before trusting file presence.
A manifest missing a file.<table> row entirely is different from one that explicitly sets it to absent, but both mean "don't expect this file" — a validator that only checks for explicit absent values will break on the missing-key case.
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