SwiftVerificar-validation — Agent Instructions

Module name: SwiftVerificarValidation

What This Library Does

Core PDF validation engine for the SwiftVerificar ecosystem. Provides rule execution against parsed PDF documents, PD-layer validation types (annotations, fonts, color spaces, structure trees), SA-layer semantic accessibility types, feature extraction, metadata fixing, and serialization. This is the largest package in the suite with 238+ public types across 9 functional layers, 3050+ tests, completed over 19 sprints.

Dependencies

• SwiftVerificarValidationProfiles (required) — provides profile/rule types
• SwiftVerificarParser (optional) — uses #if canImport with fallback stubs when not available

Key Public Types

Core

• ValidationEngine — protocol defining the validation contract
• ValidationResult — aggregate result of a validation run
• RuleResult — result of a single rule evaluation
• ValidationError — error types during validation
• ValidationContext — context passed through validation pipeline

Engine

• RuleExecutor — executes rules against PDF objects
• ObjectValidator — validates individual PDF objects
• ProfileRuleEvaluator — evaluates rules from a validation profile
• EvaluationContext — context for rule evaluation

Validators

• PDFAValidator — base PDF/A validator
  • PDFA1Validator, PDFA2Validator, PDFA3Validator, PDFA4Validator
• PDFUAValidator — base PDF/UA validator
  • PDFUA1Validator, PDFUA2Validator

Object Model

• PDFObject — protocol for all PDF objects in the validation model
• PropertyValue — typed property access on PDF objects
• ValidatedOperator — enum with 70 operators across 14 categories (graphics state, path construction, path painting, clipping, text state, text positioning, text showing, type3 font, color, inline image, XObject, marked content, compatibility, page boundary)

PD Layer (Physical Document)

• PDValidationObject — base protocol for PD-layer objects
• ValidatedDocument — top-level document validation object
• ValidatedPage — page-level validation
• ValidatedResource — resource dictionary validation
• ValidatedContentStream — content stream validation
• StructureElementType — enum with 55 cases for PDF structure element types
• ValidatedStructTreeRoot — structure tree root validation
• ValidatedStructElem — structure element validation
• ValidatedAnnotation — annotation validation
• AnnotationType — enum with 27 annotation type cases
• ValidatedFont — font validation types
• FontSubtype, FontValidation, Type0Font, Type1Font, TrueTypeFont, CIDFont
• ValidatedAcroForm — form field validation
• Color space validation: ColorSpaceFamily, DeviceGray, DeviceRGB, DeviceCMYK, ICCBased, CalGray, CalRGB
• External objects: ICCProfile, JPEG2000, EmbeddedFile, PKCS validation
• Additional: OutputIntent, Action, Destination, OptionalContentGroup, Pattern, Shading, XObject, Outline

SA Layer (Semantic Accessibility)

• SAObject — protocol for SA-layer objects
• SADocument — semantic document representation
• SAPage — semantic page representation
• SAStructureRoot — structure tree root in SA layer
• SANode — generic node in the semantic tree
• SAStructureElement — structure element in SA layer
• ContentChunkContainer — container for content chunks
• ContentChunkFactory — factory for creating content chunks
• WCAGValidationContext — context for WCAG validation
• SADocumentEncoder — serialization of SA documents
• SALayerHelpers — utility functions for SA layer
• SAValidationReport — SA-specific validation report

Features

• FeatureExtractor — extracts features from PDF documents
• FeatureType — enum of extractable feature categories
• FeatureNode — node in the feature tree
• FeatureReport — aggregated feature extraction report

Metadata

• MetadataFixer — repairs and normalizes PDF metadata
• XMP schema types for metadata validation
• InfoDictionary — PDF info dictionary access

Common Usage

import SwiftVerificarValidation

// Validate operator types
let op = ValidatedOperator.textShowTj
op.isTextOperator // true
op.category // .textShowing

// Check structure element types
let elemType = StructureElementType.h1
elemType.isHeading // true
elemType.headingLevel // 1

Build Commands

NEVER use swift build or swift test. Always use xcodebuild.

# Build
xcodebuild build -scheme SwiftVerificarValidation -destination 'platform=macOS'

# Test
xcodebuild test -scheme SwiftVerificarValidation -destination 'platform=macOS'

Run these from the /SwiftVerificar-validation/ package directory.

Technical Details

• Swift version: 6.0 (strict concurrency)
• All types are Sendable
• Testing framework: Swift Testing
• Platforms: macOS 14.0+, iOS 17.0+
• Stats: 238+ public types, 3050+ tests, 19 sprints