@appliedblockchain/assert-combinators
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Assertion combinators.
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Functional assertion combinators.
Name | Type | Runtime
--------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------------
Primitive | string
| $.string
Primitive | number
| $.number
Primitive | boolean
| $.boolean
Primitive | undefined
| $.undefined
Primitive | null
| $.null
Undefined or null | undefined \| null
| $.nil
Undefined or A | undefined \| A
| $.undefinedOr(a)
Nullable A | null \| A
| $.nullOr(a)
Nillable A | undefined \| null \| A
| $.nilOr(a)
Unknown | unknown
| $.unknown
Array | A[]
| $.array(a)
Object | { a: A, b: B }
| $.object({ a, b })
Exact object | { a: A, b: B }
| $.exact({ a, b })
Record | Record<K, V>
| $.record(k, v)
Keyed object | Record<string, undefined \| V>
| $.keyed(v)
Intersection | A & B
| $.and(a, b)
Primitive type union | 'A' \| 'B'
| $.oneOf('A', 'B')
Union | A \| B
| $.or(a, b)
Date string YYYY-MM-DD
| string
weaker | $.dateString
Defined | Exclude<A, undefined>
| $.defined(a)
Literal primitive | "foo"
, 42
| $.eq('foo')
, $.eq(42)
Tuple | [number, string]
| $.tuple($.number, $.string)
Finite number | number
weaker | $.finite
Positive number | number
weaker | $.positive
Safe integer | number
weaker | $.safeInteger
Greater than | number
weaker | $.gt(42)
Greater than | number
weaker | $.gt(42)
Greater or equal than | number
weaker | $.gte(42)
Non blank string | string
weaker | $.nonBlankString
Regexp | string
weaker | $.regexp(/^[a-z]+$/i)
Strftime formatted string | string
weaker | $.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
Utility functions
- errorOf – instead of throwing, returns Error or undefined if assertion passes.
- identity
- if
- implies
- in
- predicate
- rethrow
Examples
import * as $ from '@appliedblockchain/assert-combinators'
ws.on('message', _ => {
const { method, agree } = $.object({
method: $.string,
agree: $.boolean
})(JSON.parse(_))
// Types are correct:
// method: string
// agree: boolean
})
Not precise types
In some cases runtime type assertions provide stronger guarantees than static types.
For example $.finite
asserts that the value is not only a number
but also that is not NaN
, Infinity
or -Infinity
.
Opaque types section provides solution for some cases.
Opaque types
Unlike Flow, TypeScript doesn't directly support opaque types.
However, they can be emulated by intersecting with object containing unique property type which exists in static type system only. It does not exist in runtime value.
type Finite = number & { readonly _tag: 'Finite' }
Opaque types allow to design code in such a way that value of the type can be created in one place – as result of runtime type assertion – only. The only possible way of creating values of this type is to create valid values. Those assertions have to happen at construction and I/O boundaries only. Once value is validated, it enters static type system. It doesn't have to be re-validated anywhere else in the code. Usage of the value is safe, guaranteed to conform to this assertion.
Good examples of opaque type candidates are NonEmptyArray<T>
, Positive
, Email
.
ValidatedEmail
– ie. an email that passed some async validation can be used to annotate function parameter for functions that should be used only for validated emails – without the need for re-validating email in each function's body.
Optional tuple tail
When tail of tuple accepts undefined values, resulting tuple may have shorter length than arity of assertion function.
const assertMyTuple = $.tuple($.string, $.undefinedOr($.number))
assertMyTuple([ 'foo' ]) // ok
assertMyTuple([ 'foo', 1 ]) // ok
A good rule of thumb is to destructure tuple elements if it accepts undefined at tail position to make sure the code doesn't rely on the length, ie:
const [ myString, maybeNumber ] = assertMyTuple(input)
Exhaustive switch
Use never
assertion to force exhaustiveness on switch statements:
import * as $ from '@appliedblockchain/assert-combinators'
type X = 'a' | 'b' | 'c'
const assertX: $.Assert<X> =
$.oneOf('a', 'b', 'c')
const x: X = assertX(JSON.parse('"c"'))
switch (x) {
case 'a':
case 'b':
console.log(x)
break
default:
// Argument of type 'string' is not assignable to parameter of type 'never'.ts(2345)
// const x: "c"
$.never(x)
}
License
MIT License
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