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validate(attrs, version="0.6") failed on any 0.6 image:

jsonschema.exceptions._WrappedReferencingError: Unresolvable:
https://ngff.openmicroscopy.org/0.6.dev4/schemas/coordinate_transformations.schema#/$defs/scale

From 0.6 the spec splits axes, coordinate systems and coordinate transformations into separate files that image.schema reaches by absolute $id URL. Validation is offline, so nothing dereferences those URLs, and only the requested schema (plus the _version one from 0.5) was in the registry.

The fix

Build the referencing.Registry from every bundled schema for the version, each keyed by its own $id. Every non-internal $ref in every bundled schema points at a sibling file in the same version directory, so a per-version registry is complete.

All 52 bundled schemas across 0.1 to 0.6 declare an $id, and no $id is repeated within a version, so the registry is unambiguous.

A pre-release resolves to the tree of the release it leads to, so the "0.6.dev4" string a 0.6 store records on disk maps to spec/0.6. The version is matched against the bundled directory names rather than joined onto the path, because it arrives straight from a store's metadata whenever the caller passes an explicit version. An unbundled version now names the bundled ones instead of raising FileNotFoundError on an internal path.

Two widened behaviours

strict=True works at every version. The strict_* schemas wrap their base schema by absolute $id, and the pre-0.6 ones omit $schema, so they need both the registry and an explicit default specification.

The v0.6 read path validates. from_ngff_zarr(..., validate=True) checks a 0.6 store. The reader takes the version from the ome namespace, where 0.6 records it, falling back to the multiscales entry as the v0.4 path does.

The upstream 0.6rc0 schemas carry the same absolute cross-file references, so bundling them instead would need the same registry.

Verification

Before and after, on a 0.6 store written by the library:

strict=False strict=True
before Unresolvable: .../coordinate_transformations.schema Unresolvable: .../image.schema
after ok ok

Closes #647.

Note for the merge order

This conflicts with #611 in py/ngff_zarr/validate.py, and only there. #611 adds a guard that reports 0.9.dev1 as having no published schema; this PR rewrites load_schema around a version-to-directory lookup that also rejects unbundled versions. Keeping the #611 guard first preserves its message, which points at validate_structural; test_no_bundled_schema_is_reported_explicitly expects NotImplementedError.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected metadata validation so caller-specified settings are respected.
    • Improved schema version detection, including fallback and prerelease handling.
    • Enabled reliable offline validation across bundled schemas and cross-schema references.
    • Added stricter rejection of invalid, unsupported, and forged metadata versions.
    • Improved validation when reading metadata from storage.
    • Strengthened image metadata validation, including strict schema checks.
    • Added clearer errors when schemas are unavailable.

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v0.6 metadata loading now honors the caller’s validation setting. Validation selects bundled schemas by metadata version, resolves split-schema references offline, handles prerelease versions, and rejects unbundled or forged version values. Tests cover these validation paths.

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Schema validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bundled schema discovery and registry
py/ngff_zarr/validate.py
Schema loading discovers bundled versions, resolves prerelease versions, and registers all bundled schemas for cross-schema references.
Metadata version selection and read-path validation
py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py, py/ngff_zarr/from_ngff_zarr.py
v0.6 metadata validation selects the OME-Zarr version and honors the caller’s validate argument.
Validation and security coverage
py/test/test_ngff_validation.py, mcp/ngff_zarr_mcp/tools.py
Tests cover split-schema references, prerelease versions, invalid metadata, read-path validation, strict schemas, bundled-version enforcement, and forged versions. The fallback validator now returns None.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to df630

The PR fixes cross-file schema validation, but a test helper still passes a NumPy array directly to to_multiscales() instead of the required NgffImage input, which can invalidate verification; merge should wait for that test setup to be corrected.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MetadataReadPath
  participant MetadataFromZarrAttrs
  participant BundledSchemaRegistry
  participant Validator
  MetadataReadPath->>MetadataFromZarrAttrs: pass attributes and validate flag
  MetadataFromZarrAttrs->>BundledSchemaRegistry: select version and load schemas
  BundledSchemaRegistry-->>Validator: provide registered schemas
  MetadataFromZarrAttrs->>Validator: validate metadata
  Validator-->>MetadataReadPath: return metadata or validation error
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Prerelease paths resolve in time.
Split references join the trail,
Forged versions fail validation.
“Validate,” I thump, “when callers say!”
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py`:
- Around line 682-685: Update the schema_version assignment in zarr metadata
loading to apply the final "0.6" fallback when the per-entry multiscales version
is absent or null, ensuring validate_ngff() receives the default version rather
than the string "None".

In `@py/ngff_zarr/validate.py`:
- Around line 90-92: Update the public validate function signature with an
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validation behavior and parameters, without changing its existing logic.
- Around line 41-50: Update the version fallback in the schema lookup logic to
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- Around line 247-260: Apply the Zarr v3 requirement only to the ngff_version
values "0.5" and "0.6" in test_validate_strict_image_schema, while keeping the
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validate() registered only the requested schema, plus the version schema
from 0.5, in the referencing registry. From 0.6 the spec splits axes,
coordinate systems and coordinate transformations into separate files that
image.schema reaches by absolute $id URL, and nothing dereferences those
URLs offline, so validating any 0.6 image raised "Unresolvable:
.../0.6.dev4/schemas/coordinate_transformations.schema#/$defs/scale".

Build the registry from every bundled schema file for the version, keyed by
its own $id. Every non-internal $ref in every bundled schema resolves to a
sibling file in the same version directory, so a per-version registry is
complete. strict=True works at every version on the same footing: the
strict_* schemas wrap their base schema by absolute $id URL, and the pre-0.6
ones omit $schema, so they need both the registry and an explicit default
specification.

A pre-release version string resolves to the spec tree of the release it
leads to, so the "0.6.dev4" string a 0.6 store records on disk maps to
spec/0.6. The version is matched against the bundled directory names rather
than joined onto the path as given, because it arrives straight from a
store's metadata whenever the caller passes an explicit version, which
bypasses the NgffVersion check in version detection. An unbundled version
now names the bundled ones instead of raising FileNotFoundError on an
internal path.

The v0.6 reader takes the version from the ome namespace, where 0.6 records
it, falling back to the multiscales entry as the v0.4 read path does.

The v0.6 read path forwards its validate flag, so from_ngff_zarr(...,
validate=True) checks a 0.6 store against the schema.

The upstream 0.6rc0 schemas carry the same absolute cross-file $id
references, so bundling those instead needs the same registry.

Closes fideus-labs#647.
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Only a pre-release leads to a release, so only a pre-release resolves to that
release's bundled tree. A post-release or a local version shares a base version
with a release without being it, and neither has a bundled tree.

The v0.6 read path falls back to "0.6" when both version fields are null, so
validate_ngff() receives a version rather than the string "None".

validate() carries a return type and a docstring naming its parameters and
what it raises.

The strict-schema test runs its 0.4 parameter on zarr-python 2: only the 0.5
and 0.6 parameters need a Zarr v3 store.

The MCP fallback stub for validate_ngff carries the same return type, which
mypy requires of conditional function variants.
`validate()` imports jsonschema before it loads the schema, so without the
`[validate]` extra the test raised ImportError rather than the ValueError it
asserts. Every other test in the file already guards the same way.

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Convert the array to NgffImage before calling to_multiscales().

_write_valid_3d_store_v06() passes the NumPy array directly to to_multiscales(). Convert the array to NgffImage first, then pass the image to to_multiscales() before writing with to_ngff_zarr().

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