From 279be0a124efefd1f79c7e320baa146a09a631cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dillon Hardy <dhardy@wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:37:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add JSON validation to GitHub Action

This is a follow-up patch for T404882. A new step was added to prevent
invalid JSON syntax in pull requests, which is determined by a non-zero
exit code returned from the jq command.
---
 .github/workflows/language-data.yml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/language-data.yml b/.github/workflows/language-data.yml
index dfe8a4f49c..5ccad58183 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/language-data.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/language-data.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Download
         run: curl -o locale/language-data.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/language-data/refs/heads/master/data/language-data.json
 
+      - name: Validate
+        run: jq -ce . locale/language-data.json > /dev/null
+
       - name: Pull Request
         uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v7
         with: