Ben Dichter

Thanks @t-b , this sounds like a useful feature!

Check out NWB inspector. It calls validation and has this json output feature

nwb inspector has its own check and calls the validator and returns any errors, so you don't need to call both.

yes, I think it's the OSX and Windows distros that are a problem. This line [from dandi hub](https://github.com/dandi/dandi-hub/blob/dandi/docker/Dockerfile#L39) conda install -c conda-forge "h5py>=3.4=mpi*" works for me on OSX.

We agreed to incorporate this feature into `validate`

@TomDonoghue thanks for reporting this. It's a bug and we'll fix it, but getting that released could take some time. As a work-around, does it work for you to just...

@rly it looks like you added these lines 2 years ago: https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/pynwb/pull/1146 if this helps track down the intended behavior

I'm happy with the flexibility of this approach. I think this could help minimize a l of testing code across several repos, including PyNWB, NWB Widgets, and NWB Inspector. Questions:...

@rly and @oruebel this is ready for review

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Oliver! For **a-v2** I don't think a `VectorIndex` could pull out the right values because it would need to select discontinuous regions of `all_spike_times`. **d**...