What is cerberus-cpp

cerberus-cpp is a schema validation tool for YAML data written in C++.
It reimplements a subset of the schema validation of the Python tool cerberus
in the C++ language. This allows the same schemas to be used in Python
and C++ projects, as well as projects that mix these languages.
For YAML parsing, cerberus-cpp relies on the well-established yaml-cpp
library.

Core Features

• Simple, yet powerful definition of validation schema
• Validation of arbitrarily nested data
• Modern C++11 design
• Schema are implemented in the same language as the data - no DSLs to learn!
• Validation of schemas against a schema that is incrementally built from rules definitions
• Registration of custom validation and normalization rules
• Registration of custom types
• Compatibility with a well-established Python package

Prerequisites

Cerberus-cpp is header-only, so it should be fairly easy to get up and running.
It requires the following software to be available:

• A C++14-compliant C++ compiler
• CMake >= 3.11
• The yaml-cpp library version >= 0.6, e.g. by installing
  the Debian/Ubuntu package libyaml-cpp-dev.

Documentation

For usage examples, detailed instructions and an overview on the compatibility
with the Python package, check out the
cerberus-cpp documentation