def serialize_validate(self, valid_record):
schema = jsonschema.get_root_schema_dict(valid_record)<EOL>record_json = jsonschema.dumps(valid_record)<EOL>record_dict = json.loads(record_json)<EOL>validate(record_dict, schema)<EOL>
Serialize and validate a record

        The record is dumped to JSON and then loaded into a Python dictionary,
        which is checked against the known schema