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fix/rfc3-axes is the branch #611 came from. #611 is in main; #673 and #686 were merged into the branch afterwards, so their work is not. This carries the branch across.

The RFC-4 version gate (#673)

The three orientation rules are normative from OME-Zarr 0.9.dev1, which incorporates RFC-4 through ome/ngff-spec#190. They are inert when the caller declares 0.4, 0.5 or 0.6, where RFC-4 has no normative status, and stay on when no version is declared, the strictness choice axis-names-unique also makes below 0.9.dev1.

The rule table, the parity manifests in both ports and the validation docs carry the same statement, so the gate is visible where the rules are described rather than only where they run.

The bundled 0.9.dev1 schemas (#686)

Twenty schema files. A 0.9.dev1 store is validated on read and through the upgrade command instead of skipped for want of a schema.

Four fixes

Two schema descriptions the validator prints. image.schema says "A sequence of a ingle scale". byDimension describes inputAxes and outputAxes as names of axes while both arrays are typed number; the spec text says positions in three places, and ngff-spec ships an invalid fixture using ["x"] so that names are rejected. Both go upstream in ome/ngff-spec#195, with the wording that PR settles on, so a later tag brings the same sentence back.

strict_ome_zarr.schema lists one branch fewer than ome_zarr.schema. It omits scene, and the 0.9 cohort ships no strict_scene.schema, so a scene document passes the generic schema and fails the strict one. The branch is added, which stops a refusal rather than starting one.

A malformed document reaches the schema that describes it. Reading the declared version off ome assumed ome was an object, so null, a string or an array raised AttributeError about .get. A version that is not a string was stringified and used as a schema selector, so the document came back as ValueError: No JSON Schema is bundled for OME-Zarr version '5', which describes this package rather than the store. Neither selects a schema now; both go to the 0.9.dev1 pass, which reports what is wrong with the document. Two parametrised regression tests.

minContains stays inert

minContains without a contains is ignored in JSON Schema 2020-12. It appears that way in five bundled schemas from 0.4 through 0.9, and axes.schema at 0.6 carries minContains: 2, maxContains: 3 for the spatial-axis count with no contains either.

Activating them here would make this package stricter than the official schemas and refuse stores every other OME-Zarr implementation accepts, back to 0.4. validate_spatial_axis_order enforces the spatial-axis rule structurally, so nothing is unchecked meanwhile. Upstream: ome/ngff#602, where whether an empty series should be rejected is a normative call.

scene.schema types path as a string. This package strips path: None before writing, so it emits none; only reading a third-party store that carries "path": null is affected.

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43 files, +2193 −192. Twenty are the 0.9.dev1 schemas #686 vendors, two are edits to an already-vendored schema.

main is merged in at 9238fe5: #689 touches the same import lines the version gate rewrites, and both sides are kept.

Python 1436 passed and 3 skipped, TypeScript green, prek clean.

vboussot and others added 6 commits August 25, 2026 20:37
The 0.9.dev1 release publishes the JSON Schemas that 0.9 lacked, so the
reader no longer refuses validate=True. The 20 schemas of the tag are
vendored under spec/0.9, which is where _schemas_dir sends "0.9.dev1"
already: it resolves a prerelease string to its base version, as it does
for "0.6rc0".

axis_orientation.schema is the one file with no counterpart at 0.6.

The v0.6 delegate runs with validate=False afterwards, since it would
otherwise measure a 0.9 document against the 0.6 schemas.
RFC-4 anatomical orientation is normative from OME-Zarr 0.9.dev1
(ome/ngff-spec#190); the released 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6 specs give it no
status. Decided in #667: the three axis-orientation rules now gate on
the declared version, becoming a no-op below 0.9.dev1. An omitted
version keeps the checks on, as a strictness choice, exactly like
axis-names-unique below 0.9.dev1, so every existing no-version caller
is unchanged.

The gate mirrors the RFC-3 helper's form with the polarity inverted:
RFC-3 lifts axis restrictions at 0.9.dev1 while RFC-4 adds
requirements, so is_rfc4_orientation_enforced exits the rules early
below 0.9.dev1 rather than at it. The Python v0.4 reader now passes
the store's declared version to validate_structural, as the
TypeScript reader already did.

The readers' raw RFC-4 hooks are removed. They ran validate_rfc4
orientation on the raw axis dicts before parsing, which the
structural pass repeats on the parsed axes with the same function and
the same verdicts (the RFC-4 JSON Schema's root object declares no
properties, so its final pass constrains nothing); they fired before
the structural rules, out of the canonical evaluation order; and the
v0.6 Python hook read a flat axes list the v0.6 layout does not have.
The orientation rule is now the single enforcement point in each
port.

No rule is added, renamed or reordered. The parity suites pin the new
version set as CANONICAL_RFC4_VERSIONS in both ports. Two tests that
pinned the raw hooks' read-path rejection now pin the read-path
acceptance below 0.9.dev1; their fixtures carried an (x, y, z)
spatial order that the hooks' early raise had kept from the
structural pass.

Refs #667
The three axis-orientation rules are normative from OME-Zarr 0.9.dev1
and inert when the caller declares an earlier version; with no version
they stay on as a strictness choice, like axis-names-unique. Said in
the rule-reference table rows and intro, the overview's scope
paragraph, and the parity contract, which grows a sixth dimension and
the CANONICAL_RFC4_VERSIONS manifest.

Refs #667
…sion gate

The reader test main added with #661 expected the non-space orientation
rule to fire on a 0.4 store. RFC 4 gates on 0.9.dev1 here, so the 0.4 read
path does not apply it and the document reads cleanly, as the neighbouring
tests already state. The rule itself stays covered at the rule level.
"OME-Zarr 0.9.dev1, the version `ome/ngff-spec#190` folds RFC-4 into"
reads the issue number as a version and leaves the verb without an
object. The version is 0.9.dev1; ome/ngff-spec#190 is what incorporates
RFC-4 into it.
fix(py,ts): gate the RFC-4 orientation checks on 0.9.dev1
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RFC-4 orientation validation is version-gated in Python and TypeScript. OME-Zarr 0.9.dev1 and unspecified versions enforce the rules. Earlier declared versions skip them. Python now supports bundled 0.9.dev1 schema validation.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Version-gated validation contract
docs/validation/*, py/ngff_zarr/structural_validation.py, ts/src/types/supported_versions.ts, ts/src/utils/structural_validation.ts
Structural validation receives the metadata version. RFC-4 orientation rules run for 0.9.dev1 and unspecified versions. Earlier declared versions bypass them.
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py/ngff_zarr/v04/..., py/ngff_zarr/v06/..., ts/src/utils/from_zarr_attrs.ts, py/ngff_zarr/v09/zarr_metadata.py
Readers resolve or receive the declared version. Separate RFC-4 reader checks were removed. The 0.9.dev1 reader validates against bundled schemas.
Bundled OME-Zarr 0.9 schemas
py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/*
Base and strict schemas cover OME-Zarr metadata, images, labels, plates, wells, scenes, axes, and coordinate transformations.
Cross-language parity and reader tests
py/test/*, ts/test/*
Tests cover version manifests, orientation rule outcomes, pre-RFC-4 reader behavior, and validated 0.9.dev1 stores.
Validation documentation and schema corrections
docs/cli.md, docs/spec_features.md, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.6/schemas/*
Documentation describes 0.9.dev1 validation support. Existing 0.6 schema descriptions use corrected terminology.

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The change gates orientation validation by version, but the current head still has concrete paths that can bypass required checks or accept invalid metadata, along with bounded version and coordinate-system handling issues. This is a moderate merge-readiness risk that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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from ..parse_metadata import _parse_omero
from ..validate import validate as validate_ngff

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Run structural validation after parsing v0.6 metadata.

With validate=True, this reader runs schema validation but returns without calling validate_structural. A 0.9.dev1 store with a schema-valid duplicate anatomical-axis orientation bypasses the RFC-4 rules in the Python v0.6 reader. The v0.4 Python reader and the TypeScript v0.6 reader pass the declared version to structural validation.

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         metadata = cls(
             coordinateSystems=coordinate_systems,
             datasets=datasets,
             name=root_attrs.get("name", "image"),
             omero=omero,
             coordinateTransformations=additionalTransformations,
         )
 
+        if validate:
+            from ..structural_validation import (
+                ValidateOptions,
+                ValidationLevel,
+                validate_structural,
+            )
+
+            validate_structural(
+                metadata,
+                ValidateOptions(level=ValidationLevel.STRICT),
+                version=declared_version,
+            )
+
         return metadata, images

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Correct, and #687 carries the fix (commit 4f385e8), so this PR keeps to its one job of moving four stranded commits into main.

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@vboussot, I verified #687 and commit 4f385e8.

The commit adds the missing validate_structural call. However, it calls:

validate_structural(metadata, ValidateOptions(level=ValidationLevel.STRICT))

It does not pass version=declared_version. The default unspecified version enables RFC-4 orientation validation. Therefore, declared v0.6 metadata would incorrectly enforce the RFC-4 rules.

This PR needs version propagation if it adds the structural validation call. I will keep the finding open.


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vboussot and others added 2 commits August 26, 2026 16:24
The reader accepts a flat axis list at 0.9.dev1, so a store carrying a
0.9 version string over a 0.5-shaped entry stays readable. That tolerance
is one-sided: the entry declares no coordinateSystems, which image.schema
requires, and its dataset transforms name no input or output, so the
schema pass refuses it.

Only the lenient half was covered. The refusal is asserted without a
message match, since jsonschema reports whichever of the two violations
it reaches first.
feat(py): validate 0.9.dev1 stores against the bundled schemas

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In `@py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/scene.schema`:
- Around line 34-52: Update the path properties in both the input and output
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/strict_ome_zarr.schema`:
- Around line 4-23: Update the top-level anyOf in strict_ome_zarr.schema to
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"input": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {"type": "string"},
"path": {"type": "string"}
},
"required": ["name"],
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "Must reference a coordinate system defined in the same metadata document (path empty) or in a subgroup (path provided)"
},
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"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {"type": "string"},
"path": {"type": "string"}
},
"required": ["name"],
"additionalProperties": false,
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Yes, the OME-NGFF specification allows the path field to be null or omitted when referencing a coordinate system defined within the same metadata document (the same zarr.json file) [1]. Within the scene > coordinateTransformations metadata, both input and output fields must contain a JSON object that identifies a coordinate system [2][1]. While a path is required when referencing a coordinate system located in a separate multiscale image subgroup, it may be omitted or set to null if the coordinate system is defined locally within the scene's own coordinateSystems dictionary [2][1]. In such cases, the path value is interpreted as referring to the current zarr.json file [1].

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Accept null for local coordinate-system paths.

The schema rejects "path": null for both input.path and output.path, although OME-NGFF 0.9.dev1 permits a null path for coordinate systems defined in the same metadata document. Change both properties to accept ["string", "null"].

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rg -n -C 4 'validate_ngff|from \.\.?validate|def validate|class .*Metadata|root_attrs' \
  py/ngff_zarr/v09/zarr_metadata.py py/ngff_zarr/validate.py py/ngff_zarr

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Use an absolute import for validate_ngff.

Replace the relative import with from ngff_zarr.validate import validate as validate_ngff to follow the repository import rule.

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In `@py/ngff_zarr/v09/zarr_metadata.py` at line 357, Update the import of
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@thewtex Is this really a repository rule? It seems to be documented, but relative imports are used extensively throughout py/ngff_zarr, including in this same file. Should we really enforce it here specifically?

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@vboussot I don't recall it being a repository rule.

I don't think it needs to be enforced here specifically.

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@thewtex Ah, I found where CodeRabbit is getting it from. It is currently documented in both docs/development.md under Python code style (“Imports: Absolute imports”) and AGENTS.md (“Use absolute imports”). CodeRabbit flags this pretty much every time, but I’ve been ignoring it because, in practice, the codebase seems to follow the opposite convention and uses relative imports extensively

Comment thread py/ngff_zarr/v09/zarr_metadata.py Outdated
Two files touched on both sides. The version gate moves the RFC-4 orientation
check out of the v0.4 and v0.6 readers, so their imports of _raw_axes and the
rfc4_validation helpers go with it; main meanwhile added
non_default_axes_types to the same import line and the axes_types it fills in
on the read image. Both kept.
Both are description text, so no document changes validity.

"A sequence of a ingle scale followed by a single translation" in
image.schema, present since 0.6rc0. And byDimension describing inputAxes and
outputAxes as names of axes, while both arrays are typed number: the spec
text says positions in three places, and ngff-spec ships an invalid fixture
using ["x"] so that names are rejected.

Both are proposed upstream in ome/ngff-spec#195 against the 0.9dev branch;
these copies carry them until a later tag brings them back.
Reading the declared version off `ome` before validating assumed `ome` was
an object. A document whose `ome` is null, a string or an array raised
AttributeError about `.get`, which says nothing about the document; it now
goes to the schema pass, which reports what is wrong with it.

strict_ome_zarr.schema also lists one branch fewer than ome_zarr.schema: it
omits scene, and the 0.9 cohort ships no strict_scene.schema, so a scene
document passed the generic schema and failed the strict one. The scene
branch is added, which stops a refusal rather than starting one.

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py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py (1)

625-627: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the unspecified version during structural validation.

When neither the group nor multiscale entry declares version, line 600 sets metadata.version to "0.4". This call then treats the store as declared v0.4. The RFC-4 contract requires orientation checks to remain enabled when no version is declared.

Keep a separate declared_version value with None for the unspecified case, and pass it here. Use "0.4" only for schema or model fallback.

Proposed fix
 group_version = root_attrs.get("version")
 root_attrs = root_attrs["multiscales"][0]
+declared_version = group_version or root_attrs.get("version")

 ...
                 validate_structural(
                     metadata,
                     ValidateOptions(level=ValidationLevel.STRICT),
-                    version=metadata.version,
+                    version=declared_version,
                 )
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py` around lines 625 - 627, Preserve the
original unspecified version separately from the schema/model fallback in the
metadata validation flow: retain None as declared_version when neither the group
nor multiscale entry provides a version, use "0.4" only for metadata fallback,
and pass declared_version to ValidateOptions in the structural validation call.
py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/image.schema (2)

116-129: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Enforce the documented transform order in both image schemas.

Both schemas accept arbitrary two-item combinations of scale and translation, although the contract requires scale followed by translation. Use tuple validation to enforce the order.

  • py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/image.schema#L116-L129: require scale as the first item and translation as the second item.
  • py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.6/schemas/image.schema#L116-L129: apply the same ordered tuple constraint.
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/image.schema` around lines 116 - 129, Update
the ordered transformation tuple in py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/image.schema
lines 116-129 so the first item is restricted to the scale definition and the
second to the translation definition, preserving exactly two items. Apply the
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116-129; both sites require direct changes.

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Require the discriminator on nested transformations.

Both $defs/scale and $defs/translation require only their value fields. The direct $ref entries therefore accept {"scale": [1]} and {"translation": [0]} without a "type" discriminator. Add "type" to both required lists.

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In `@py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/image.schema` around lines 116 - 129, Update
the nested scale and translation transformation definitions referenced by the
sequence schema so each required list includes the type discriminator alongside
its value field. Preserve the existing validation of scale and translation
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py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py (1)

443-443: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use absolute imports for the new NgffImage helper imports.

  • py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py#L443-L443: use from ngff_zarr.ngff_image import NgffImage, non_default_axes_types.
  • py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py#L733-L733: use from ngff_zarr.ngff_image import NgffImage, non_default_axes_types.

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In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py` at line 443, Replace the relative
NgffImage imports with absolute imports from ngff_zarr.ngff_image in
py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py at lines 443-443 and
py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py at lines 733-733, preserving the existing
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/image.schema`:
- Around line 116-129: Update the ordered transformation tuple in
py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.9/schemas/image.schema lines 116-129 so the first item is
restricted to the scale definition and the second to the translation definition,
preserving exactly two items. Apply the same tuple constraint to
py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.6/schemas/image.schema lines 116-129; both sites require
direct changes.
- Around line 116-129: Update the nested scale and translation transformation
definitions referenced by the sequence schema so each required list includes the
type discriminator alongside its value field. Preserve the existing validation
of scale and translation values while ensuring direct references reject objects
missing type.

In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py`:
- Around line 625-627: Preserve the original unspecified version separately from
the schema/model fallback in the metadata validation flow: retain None as
declared_version when neither the group nor multiscale entry provides a version,
use "0.4" only for metadata fallback, and pass declared_version to
ValidateOptions in the structural validation call.

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In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py`:
- Line 443: Replace the relative NgffImage imports with absolute imports from
ngff_zarr.ngff_image in py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py at lines 443-443 and
py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py at lines 733-733, preserving the existing
imported symbols and import grouping.

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Comment thread py/ngff_zarr/v09/zarr_metadata.py Outdated
"Indices", which is what ome/ngff-spec#195 settles on, rather than the
"Positions" this copy carried: a later tag then brings the same sentence
back instead of a second wording.
A truthy non-string, a number or a list, was stringified and handed on as
a schema selector, so the document came back as a ValueError listing which
schemas this package bundles. That describes the package, not the store.
It now selects nothing and goes to the 0.9.dev1 pass, which reports what is
actually wrong with the document.
@vboussot vboussot changed the title fix(py,ts): gate the RFC-4 orientation checks on 0.9.dev1 Carry fix/rfc3-axes into main: the RFC-4 version gate and the bundled 0.9.dev1 schemas Aug 27, 2026
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thewtex merged commit 59ecea7 into main Aug 27, 2026
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thewtex deleted the fix/rfc3-axes branch August 27, 2026 17:08
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