This is a Python library and command-line tool for compiling the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) schema, specifically the schema at https://github.com/ocsf/ocsf-schema.

There are three ways to use the OCSF Schema Compiler:

1. As a command-line tool, installed from PyPI.
2. As a library, installed from PyPI.
3. As a developer working on this project.

Python version 3.14 or later is required.

Create a virtual environment then install with pip. For example:

python3 -m venv .venv
source ./.venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install ocsf-schema-compiler

Running from this environment is now a matter of calling ocsf-schema-compiler:

ocsf-schema-compiler -h

The basic usage is passing the base directory of a schema to the compiler and capturing the output to a file.

ocsf-schema-compiler path/to/ocsf-schema > schema.json

Create a virtual environment then install with pip. For example:

python3 -m venv .venv
source ./.venv/bin/activate
pip install ocsf-schema-compiler

The compiler is implemented in the SchemaCompiler class. The class constructor the same options as the command-line tool. The class's compile method does the heavy lifting, returning a dict containing the compiled schema. More specifically, compiler returns an ocsf_schema_compiler.jsonish.JObject, which is a type alias for JSON-compatible dict.

from pathlib import Path

from ocsf_schema_compiler.compiler import SchemaCompiler


compiler = SchemaCompiler(Path("path/to/ocsf-schema"))
output = compiler.compile()

See ocsf_schema_compiler.__main__ for a working example.

The recommended way to work on OCSF projects is via a fork into your own GitHub profile or organization. Create your fork of this repo with the GitHub CLI tool (or, more painfully, manually).

This project requires Python 3.14 or later, and otherwise has no runtime dependencies. This mean you can run it directly from a cloned repo's src directory without creating a virtual environment.

I usually run with a subshell so my current directory remains in the base of the cloned repo. I also often use the jq tool to format the JSON output. For example:

cd path/to/ocsf-schema-compiler
$(cd src && python3 -m ocsf_schema_compiler ~/path/to/ocsf-schema > jq -S > ~/path/to/output/schema.json)

This project has regression tests in the tests directory built using the unittest library. These also can be run without a virtual environment. The tests can be run with the Makefile target tests.

make tests

This project uses Ruff for linting and code formatting. Ruff's formatting is very similar to Black with some minor differences (improvements, in my opinion). This requires a virtual environment with both installed. With the virtual environment activated the linting and formatting can be run with the Makefile target lint.

This project's .gitignore assumes the virtual environment is at .venv.

# A standard Python virtual environment works fine
python3 -m venv .venv
source ./.venv/bin/activate

# Install the tools
pip install ruff

# Now the lint target will work
make lint

Also with a virtual environment, a local install can be used to run the compiler.

# A standard Python virtual environment works fine
python3 -m venv .venv
source ./.venv/bin/activate

pip install -e .

Integrating Ruff with your editor is recommended. See Editor integration | Ruff.

This project follows the publishing approach described by this tutorial: How to Publish an Open-Source Python Package to PyPI — Real Python, including use of the Build and Twine tools. The BumpVer tool is also used to increment versions and keep the various mentions of the version in sync.

Copyright © OCSF a Series of LF Projects, LLC. See NOTICE for details.

This project is distributed under the Apache License Version 2.0. See LICENSE for details.