Options

These are the different options that can be set, whether the validator is used as a command-line script or as a Python library. When using the validator as a library, these options can be passed as parameters to the ValidationOptions constructor.

Script	Library	Description
FILES	files	A whitespace separated list of STIX files or directories of STIX files to validate.
-r, --recursive	recursive	Recursively descend into input directories.
-s SCHEMA_DIR, --schemas SCHEMA_DIR	schema_dir	Custom schema directory. If provided, input will be validated against these schemas in addition to the STIX schemas bundled with this script.
-v, --verbose	verbose	Print informational notes and more verbose error messages.
-q, --silent	silent	Silence all output to stdout.
-d DISABLED, --disable DISABLED, --ignore DISABLED	disabled	A comma-separated list of recommended best practice checks to skip. By default, no checks are disabled. Example: –disable 202,210
-e ENABLED, --enable ENABLED, --select ENABLED	enabled	A comma-separated list of recommended best practice checks to enable. If the –disable option is not used, no other checks will be run. By default, all checks are enabled. Example: –enable 218
--strict	strict	Treat warnings as errors and fail validation if any are found.
--strict-types	strict_types	Ensure that no custom object types are used, only those defined in the STIX specification.
--strict-properties	strict_properties	Ensure that no custom properties are used, only those defined in the STIX specification.
--no-cache	no_cache	Disable the caching of external source values.
--refresh-cache	refresh_cache	Clears the cache of external source values, then during validation downloads them again.
--clear-cache	clear_cache	Clear the cache of external source values after validation.

For the list of checks that can be used with the “enabled” or “disabled” options, see the Best Practices page.