release: 🔖 version 0.11.2

Author: kikkomep

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [0.11.2] - 2026-06-25
+
+Full changelog: https://github.com/crs4/rocrate-validator/compare/0.11.1...0.11.2
+
+### 🐛 Fixed
+
+- fix(cli): use Path type for `--output-file` option so Click returns a `pathlib.Path` rather than a plain string ([31f3785e](https://github.com/crs4/rocrate-validator/commit/31f3785e))
+
 ## [0.11.1] - 2026-06-25
 
 Full changelog: https://github.com/crs4/rocrate-validator/compare/0.11.0...0.11.1

pyproject.toml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "roc-validator"
-version = "0.11.1"
+version = "0.11.2"
 description = "A Python package to validate RO-Crates"
 authors = [
     "Marco Enrico Piras <kikkomep@crs4.it>",

rocrate_validator/cli/commands/validate.py

@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ def validate_uri(ctx, param, value):
 @click.option(
     "-o",
     "--output-file",
-    type=click.Path(),
+    type=click.Path(path_type=Path),
     default=None,
     show_default=True,
     help="Path to the output file for the validation report",

tests/test_cli.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+import json
 import re
 from pathlib import Path
 from unittest.mock import patch
@@ -146,6 +147,47 @@ def mock_validate(*args, **kwargs):
         )
 
 
+def test_validate_output_file_text_report(cli_runner: CliRunner, tmp_path: Path):
+    output_file = tmp_path / "report.txt"
+    result = cli_runner.invoke(
+        cli,
+        [
+            "validate",
+            str(ValidROC().wrroc_paper_long_date),
+            "--verbose",
+            "--no-paging",
+            "-o",
+            str(output_file),
+        ],
+    )
+    assert result.exit_code == 0, result.output
+    assert "AttributeError" not in result.output
+    assert output_file.exists(), "The text report file was not created"
+    assert output_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8").strip(), "The text report file is empty"
+
+
+def test_validate_output_file_json_report(cli_runner: CliRunner, tmp_path: Path):
+    output_file = tmp_path / "report.json"
+    result = cli_runner.invoke(
+        cli,
+        [
+            "validate",
+            str(ValidROC().wrroc_paper_long_date),
+            "--no-paging",
+            "--output-format",
+            "json",
+            "-w",
+            "10000",
+            "-o",
+            str(output_file),
+        ],
+    )
+    assert result.exit_code == 0, result.output
+    assert "AttributeError" not in result.output
+    assert output_file.exists(), "The JSON report file was not created"
+    json.loads(output_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))  # must be valid JSON
+
+
 def test_validate_with_invalid_profiles_path_dir(cli_runner: CliRunner):
     dummy_profiles_path = "/tmp/dummy_profiles"
     result = cli_runner.invoke(