rdf-validate-shacl

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Depending on the structure of your SHACL shape and its list definitions, you may get obscure errors such as this:

Message:
   listNode.list is not a function or its return value is not iterable

Stacktrace:
   at rdfListToArray                 rdf-validate-shacl/src/dataset-utils.js:91            return [...listNode.list()].map(({ term }) => term)                             
   at validateClosed                 rdf-validate-shacl/src/validators.js:43               allowed.addAll(rdfListToArray(context.$shapes.node(ignoredPropertiesNode)))     
   at execute                        rdf-validate-shacl/src/validation-function.js:11      return this.func.apply(globalObject, [this.context, focusNode, valueNode, const…
   at validateNodeAgainstConstraint  rdf-validate-shacl/src/validation-engine.js:217       const obj = validationFunction.execute(focusNode, valueNode, constraint)        
   at validateNodeAgainstShape       rdf-validate-shacl/src/validation-engine.js:177       if (this.validateNodeAgainstConstraint(focusNode, valueNodes, constraint, dataG…
   at validateAll                    rdf-validate-shacl/src/validation-engine.js:154       if (this.validateNodeAgainstShape(focusNode, shape, dataGraph)) {               
   at validate                       rdf-validate-shacl/index.js:36                        this.validationEngine.validateAll(this.$data)                         

This seems to be caused by the clownface list() implementation returning null instead of an iterable (see here

I would have expected no error, or a more informative error instead.

Let me know if you need an MWE, and I'll see whether I can add the M to my WE

It would be valuable to see an example.

tl;dr; the spec requires values of certain properties to be lists. If it's any of those cases, we'd likely. just trade the error message for something more informative

I was able to reproduce this with the following MWE:

prefix : <https://triply.cc/>
prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
prefix sh: <http://www.w3.org/ns/shacl#>

:x a :X.

:lst
  rdf:first rdf:type;
  rdf:rest rdf:nil.

:model {
  :lst
    rdf:first rdf:type;
    rdf:rest rdf:nil.

  :X
    sh:closed true;
    sh:ignoredProperties :lst;
    sh:targetNode :x.
}