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ECS schema validation in logger

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

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Review ecs_logging/_stdlib.py around line 112 and the validator option referenced in the issue, then compare it with the example extra fields. Done would require determining whether ECS schema validation is supported and defining the expected validator input or the scope of a validation feature.

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agent-python

Hi,

This is more of a question than an issue. Is there a validation feature in ecs-logging-python library? I wish to avoid mapping conflict later on during the application on-boarding process, and I wish to make the app ECS compatible from it's very inception.

Currently adding extra fields is simple:

logger.debug(f"Creating directory. {x}", extra={"not_an_ecs_field.method": "get", "source.ip": 22})

I have added two fields, one of which is not really an ECS schema field while the other has an invalid data type. I was wondering if I could pass in the ECS schema as a JSON and have the logger do the validation. I read an option to pass in a validator here, but not sure what it expects.

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