/gesv

Good enough schema validation

Primary LanguageJavaScript

gesv

gesv (good enough schema validation) helps you to validate data types of any JavaScript object. It can be useful in validating of JSON-response from an API. gesp is extra-small (~250B minified and gzipped) and zero dependencies library.

Installation

$ npm install --save gesv

Features

Usage

Simple API

Usage of gesv is much more straightforward that usage of any JSON Schema library. All API and built-in validators are presented in the example below:

const Schema = require('gesv')

Schema.for(Number).isValidFor(5)  // true
Schema.for(Number).isValidFor(NaN)  // false
Schema.for(String).isValidFor('Str')  // true
Schema.for(String).isValidFor('')  // true
Schema.for(Boolean).isValidFor(true)  // true

Schema.for(Schema.optional(Number)).isValidFor(undefined)  // true
Schema.for(Schema.optional(Number)).isValidFor(null)  // true 
Schema.for(Schema.optional(Number)).isValidFor(42)  // true

Schema.for([ Boolean ]).isValidFor([ true, false ])  // true
Schema.for([ String ]).isValidFor([])  // true
Schema.for([ Number ]).isValidFor([ 1, 2, true ])  // false
Schema.for([ Schema.any() ]).isValidFor([ null, undefined, 42, 'foo', [], {} ])  // true

Schema.for({
  id: Number,
  name: String,
  comments: [{
    id: Number,
    text: String,
  }]
}).isValidFor({
  id: 42,
  name: 'Doge',
  comments: [{
    id: 24,
    text: 'Wow!'
  }, {
    id: 25,
    text: 'Such validation!'
  }]
})  // true

Schema splitting

With gesv you can also split your schema in separate reusable parts:

const Schema = require('gesv')

const commentSchema = Schema.for({
  id: Number,
  text: String,
})

const postSchema = Schema.for({
  id: Number,
  name: String,
  comments: [ commentSchema ]
})

postSchema.isValidFor({
  id: 42,
  comments: [{
    id: 24,
    text: 'Such validation!'
  }]
})  // false

postSchema.isValidFor({
  id: 42,
  name: 'Name',
  comments: [{
    id: 24,
    text: 'Such validation!'
  }]
})  // true

Custom validators

If built-in validators can not solve your specific problem, you can write your own custom validators:

const Schema = require('gesv')

const gender = anObject => [ 'male', 'female' ].includes(anObject)

const userSchema = Schema.for({
  id: Number,
  gender: gender,
  age: Schema.optional(Number),
})

userSchema.isValidFor({
  id: 10,
  gender: 'male',
})  // true

userSchema.isValidFor({
  id: 11,
  gender: 'bar',
  age: 43,
})  // false