ts-schema-validator

About

ts-schema-validator is a small library that allows you to validate your TypeScript objects based on their type definitions using your validation library of choice.

Installation

yarn add ts-schema-validator

Usage

Given you have a type ContactPerson like this:

type ContactPerson = {
  firstName: string
  lastName: string
  email: string
}

You can validate its email property like this:

import { default as v } from 'validator'
import validate from 'ts-schema-validator'

const sut: ContactPerson = {
  firstName: 'Jane',
  lastName: 'Doe',
  email: null
}
const result = validate<ContactPerson>(sut, [
  {
    prop: (c) => c.email,
    validations: [
      (value) => notNullOrUndefined(value),
      (value) => value && v.isEmail(value)
    ]
  }
])
result.email[0].should.be.false()

As you're specifying the property to be validated as an expression, it is refactoring safe.

Using ts-schema-validator, you can also validate nested types.

Consider, the ContactPerson type is nested in a Customer type like this:

type Customer = {
  companyName: string
  contactPerson: ContactPerson
}

Validation still works:

import { default as v } from 'validator'
import validate from 'ts-schema-validator'

const sut: Customer = {
  companyName: 'Acme Corp.',
  contactPerson: {
    firstName: 'Jane',
    lastName: 'Doe',
    email: '[email protected]'
  }
}
const result = validate<Customer>(sut, [
  {
    prop: (p) => p.contactPerson.email,
    validations: [
      (value) => notNullOrUndefined(value),
      (value) => v.isEmail(value)
    ]
  }
])
result.contactPerson.email[0].should.be.true()
result.contactPerson.email[1].should.be.true()

As you may have noticed, there's no depedency to an external testing library, so you can use whatever you want. Just make sure, you're returning true/false accordingly.

Want to help?

This project is just getting off the ground and could use some help with cleaning things up and refactoring.

If you want to contribute - we'd love it! Just open an issue to work against so you get full credit for your fork. You can open the issue first so we can discuss and you can work your fork as we go along.

If you see a bug, please be so kind as to show how it's failing, and we'll do our best to get it fixed quickly.

Before sending a PR, please create an issue to introduce your idea and have a reference for your PR.

We're using conventional commits, so please use it for your commits as well.

Also please add tests and make sure to run npm run lint-ts or yarn lint-ts.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 PDMLab

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