joi-to-typescript

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Convert Joi Schemas to TypeScript interfaces

This will allow you to use generate TypeScript interfaces from Joi Schemas giving you confidence the schema and interface match. You no longer have to manually create the same structure again, saving you time and reducing errors.

Works with any TypeScript project and also perfectly with Hapi API requests/responses.

For generating Open Api/Swagger this project works with

• joi-to-swagger using .meta({className:''})
• hapi-swagger using .label('')

The use of .meta({className:'') is preferred over .label(''), because Joi.label() is intended to be used for meaningful error message, using it for another purpose makes Joi lose a standard feature, this is especially noticeable for frontend usages of Joi. The choice of the property className is because this property is used by joi-to-swagger making this project work with other projects.

Installation Notes

This package is intended as a development time tool, so it should be installed in the devDependencies

yarn add joi-to-typescript --dev
# or
npm install joi-to-typescript --save-dev

You will also need to install joi in the dependencies

yarn add joi
# or
npm install joi

• This has been built for "joi": "^17" and will not work for older versions
• Supported node versions 18, 20

Suggested Usage

1. Create a Schemas Folder eg. src/schemas
2. Create a interfaces Folder eg. src/interfaces
3. Create Joi Schemas in the Schemas folder with a file name suffix of Schemas eg. AddressSchema.ts
   • The file name suffix ensures that type file and schema file imports are not confusing

Example

Example Project

Explore the Example Projects for recommended setup, execute yarn types to run each one.

Example Schema

This example can be found in src/__tests__/readme

import Joi from 'joi';

// Input
export const JobSchema = Joi.object({
  businessName: Joi.string().required(),
  jobTitle: Joi.string().required()
}).meta({ className: 'Job' });

export const WalletSchema = Joi.object({
  usd: Joi.number().required(),
  eur: Joi.number().required()
})
  .unknown()
  .meta({ className: 'Wallet', unknownType: 'number' });

export const PersonSchema = Joi.object({
  firstName: Joi.string().required(),
  lastName: Joi.string().required().description('Last Name'),
  job: JobSchema,
  wallet: WalletSchema
}).meta({ className: 'Person' });

export const PeopleSchema = Joi.array()
  .items(PersonSchema)
  .required()
  .meta({ className: 'People' })
  .description('A list of People');

// Output
/**
 * This file was automatically generated by joi-to-typescript
 * Do not modify this file manually
 */

export interface Job {
  businessName: string;
  jobTitle: string;
}

/**
 * A list of People
 */
export type People = Person[];

export interface Person {
  firstName: string;
  job?: Job;
  /**
   * Last Name
   */
  lastName: string;
  wallet?: Wallet;
}

export interface Wallet {
  /**
   * Number Property
   */
  [x: string]: number;
  eur: number;
  usd: number;
}

Points of Interest

• export const PersonSchema schema must be exported
• export const PersonSchema includes a suffix of Schema so the schema and interface are not confused when using import statements (recommended not required)
• .meta({ className: 'Person' }); Sets interface name using TypeScript conventions (TitleCase Interface name, camelCase property name)
• .meta({ unknownType: 'number' }); assert unknown type to number

Upgrade Notice

• Version 1 used .label('Person') as the way to define the interface name, to use this option set { useLabelAsInterfaceName: true }

Example Call

import { convertFromDirectory } from 'joi-to-typescript';

convertFromDirectory({
  schemaDirectory: './src/schemas',
  typeOutputDirectory: './src/interfaces',
  debug: true
});

// or to get an interface as a string. Please note that this method is limited
import { convertSchema } from 'joi-to-typescript';
const resultingInterface = convertSchema({}, JobSchema);
resultingInterface?.content = // the interface as a string

Settings

export interface Settings {
  /**
   * The input/schema directory
   * Directory must exist
   */
  schemaDirectory: string;
  /**
   * The output/type directory
   * Will also attempt to create this directory
   */
  typeOutputDirectory: string;
  /**
   * Use .label('InterfaceName') instead of .meta({className:'InterfaceName'}) for interface names
   */
  useLabelAsInterfaceName: boolean;
  /**
   * If defined, when a schema name ends with "schema", replaces the ending in the generated type by default
   * with this string.
   * E.g. when this setting is "Interface", a `TestSchema` object generates a `TestInterface` type
   */
  defaultInterfaceSuffix?: string;
  /**
   * Should interface properties be defaulted to optional or required
   * @default false
   */
  defaultToRequired: boolean;
  /**
   * What schema file name suffix will be removed when creating the interface file name
   * @default "Schema"
   * This ensures that an interface and Schema with the file name are not confused
   */
  schemaFileSuffix: string;
  /**
   * If provided, appends this suffix to the generated interface filenames
   * @default ""
   */
  interfaceFileSuffix: string;
  /**
   * If `true` the console will include more information
   * @default false
   */
  debug: boolean;
  /**
   * File Header content for generated files
   */
  fileHeader: string;
  /**
   * If true will sort properties on interface by name
   * @default true
   */
  sortPropertiesByName: boolean;
  /**
   * If true will not output to subDirectories in output/interface directory. It will flatten the structure.
   */
  flattenTree: boolean;
  /**
   * If true will only read the files in the root directory of the input/schema directory. Will not parse through sub-directories.
   */
  rootDirectoryOnly: boolean;
  /**
   * If true will write all exports *'s to root index.ts in output/interface directory.
   */
  indexAllToRoot: boolean;
  /**
   * Comment every interface and property even with just a duplicate of the interface and property name
   * @default false
   */
  commentEverything: boolean;
  /**
   * List of files or folders that should be ignored from conversion. These can either be
   * filenames (AddressSchema.ts) or filepaths postfixed with a / (addressSchemas/)
   * @default []
   */
  ignoreFiles: string[];
  /**
   * The indentation characters
   * @default '  ' (two spaces)
   */
  indentationChacters: string;
  /**
   * If set to true, will use double quotes for strings
   * @default false
   */
  doublequoteEscape: boolean;
  /**
   * If a field has a default and is optional, consider it as required
   * @default false
   */
  treatDefaultedOptionalAsRequired: boolean;
  /**
   * If a field has a default, modify the resulting field to equal
   * `field: <default> | type` rather than `field: type`
   * @default false
   */
  supplyDefaultsInType: boolean;
  /**
   * If a field has a default value, add its stringified representation
   * to the JsDoc using the @default annotation
   * @default false
   */
  supplyDefaultsInJsDoc: boolean;
  /**
   * Filter files you wish to parse
   * The class `InputFileFilter` contains some default options
   * @default *.ts files
   */
  inputFileFilter: RegExp;
  /**
   * If true, skips the creation of index.ts files in the generated interface directories
   * @default false
   */
  omitIndexFiles: boolean
  /**
   * If provided, prepends the content returned by the function to the
   * generated interface/type code (including and JSDoc).
   */
  tsContentHeader?: (type: ConvertedType) => string;
  /**
   * If provided, appends the content returned by the function to the
   * generated interface/type code.
   */
  tsContentFooter?: (type: ConvertedType) => string;
  /**
   * If defined, place every member of a union on a new line
   */
  unionNewLine?: boolean;
  /**
   * If defined, place every member of a tuple on a new line
   */
  tupleNewLine?: boolean;
}

Joi Features Supported

• .meta({className:'InterfaceName'}) - interface Name and in jsDoc
• .description('What this interface is for') - jsdoc
• .optional() - optional properties ?
• .required() - required properties
• .valid(['red', 'green', 'blue']) - enumerations - allow can be used for enumerations but valid works better see _tests_/allow/allow.ts for more information
• .allow('') - will be ignored on a string
• .allow(null) - will add as an optional type eg string | null
• .array(), .object(), .string(), .number(), .boolean() - standard Joi schemas
• .alternatives() - try is supported, conditionals would be converted to any
• .unknown(true) - will add a property [x: string]: unknown; to the interface
  • Assert unknown to some type with a stringified type or a Joi schema, e.g.:

    .meta({ unknownType: 'some-type' })

    .meta({ unknownType: Joi.object({ id: Joi.string() }) })`

• .example() - jsdoc
• .cast() - currently will honor casting to string and number types, map and set to be added later
• .forbidden() will set the type to undefined
• .meta({ readonly: true }) to create readonly properties like readonly property: string;
• .ordered()
• And many others

Contributing

• Raise or comment on an Issue with a bug or feature request
• Contribute code via Raising a Pull Request
• Start a Discussion

Recommended Development Environment

Recommended Editor is VS Code, this project is setup with VSCode settings in the ./.vscode directory to keep development consistent.

Best developed on macOS, Linux, or on Windows via WSL.

Install nodejs via nvm so you can have multiple versions installed

nvm use # using NVM to select node version
yarn install # using yarn
yarn test # run local tests

yarn coverage # test coverage report
yarn lint # lint the code

Change Log

See GitHub Releases