1 files changed, 52 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/src/hydrilla/util/_util.py b/src/hydrilla/util/_util.py
index 778e78f..815b7fd 100644
--- a/src/hydrilla/util/_util.py
+++ b/src/hydrilla/util/_util.py
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ from jsonschema import RefResolver, Draft7Validator
 
 here = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
 
+class UnknownSchemaError(Exception):
+    """
+    Exception used to record problems with JSON documents for which not even
+    the appropriate validation schema could be determined.
+    """
+    pass
+
 _strip_comment_re = re.compile(r'''
 ^ # match from the beginning of each line
 ( # catch the part before '//' comment
@@ -111,27 +118,59 @@ def version_string(ver: list[int], rev: Optional[int]=None) -> str:
     return '.'.join([str(n) for n in ver]) + ('' if rev is None else f'-{rev}')
 
 schemas = {}
-for path in (here.parent / 'schemas').glob('*-1.0.1.schema.json'):
-    schema = json.loads(path.read_text())
-    schemas[schema['$id']] = schema
+for series_dir in (here.parent / 'schemas').glob('*.x'):
+    for path in series_dir.glob("*.schema.json"):
+        schema = json.loads(path.read_text())
+        schemas[schema['$id']] = schema
 
 common_schema_filename = 'common_definitions-1.schema.json'
 common_schema_path = here.parent / "schemas" / common_schema_filename
 
-resolver = RefResolver(
-    base_uri=f'file://{str(common_schema_path)}',
-    referrer=f'https://hydrilla.koszko.org/{common_schema_filename}',
-    store=schemas
-)
+def validator_for(schema: Union[str, dict]) -> Draft7Validator:
+    """
+    Prepare a validator for the provided schema.
 
-def validator_for(schema_filename: str) -> Draft7Validator:
+    Other schemas under '../schemas' can be referenced.
     """
-    Prepare a validator for one of the schemas in '../schemas'.
+    if isinstance(schema, str):
+        schema = schemas[f'https://hydrilla.koszko.org/schemas/{schema}']
+
+    resolver = RefResolver(
+        base_uri=schema['$id'],
+        referrer=schema,
+        handlers={'https': lambda uri: schemas[uri]}
+    )
+
+    return Draft7Validator(schema, resolver=resolver)
+
+_major_version_re = re.compile(r'''
+-
+(?P<major>[1-9][0-9]*)
+(?: # this repeated group matches the remaining version numbers
+  \.
+  (?:[1-9][0-9]*|0)
+)*
+\.schema\.json
+$
+''', re.VERBOSE)
+
+def load_instance_from_file(path: Path) -> tuple[dict, Optional[int]]:
+    """
+    Open a file and load its contents as a JSON document (with additional
+    '//' comments support). Then parse its "$schema" property (if present)
+    and return a tuple of the document instance and the major number of
+    schema version.
 
-    This function is not thread-safe.
+    If no schema version number can be extracted, None is used instead.
     """
-    return Draft7Validator(resolver.resolve(schema_filename)[1],
-                           resolver=resolver)
+    instance = json.loads(strip_json_comments(path.read_text()))
+    major = None
+
+    if type(instance) is dict and type(instance.get('$schema')) is str:
+        match = _major_version_re.search(instance.get('$schema'))
+        major = match and int(match.group('major'))
+
+    return instance, major
 
 def translation(localedir: Union[Path, str], lang: Optional[str]=None) \
     -> gettext.GNUTranslations: