gobl.tin

Lookup and validate Tax ID Numbers (TIN) included in GOBL documents.

Copyright Invopop Ltd. 2024. Released publicly under the Apache License Version 2.0. For commercial licenses please contact the dev team at invopop. In order to accept contributions to this library we will require transferring copyrights to Invopop Ltd.

Usage

Go Package

Usage of the GOBL TIN lookup library is pretty straight forward. You must first have a GOBL Envelope including an invoice ready to convert. There are some samples here in the test/data directory.

package main

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/invopop/gobl"
	"github.com/invopop/gobl/bill"
	"github.com/invopop/gobl/gobl.tin"
)

func main() {

	data, _ := os.ReadFile("test/data/invoice-valid.json")

	env := new(gobl.Envelope)
	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, env); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	inv, ok := env.Extract().(*bill.Invoice)
	if !ok {
		fmt.Errorf("invalid type %T", env.Document)
	}

	ctx := context.Background()
	c := New()

	// You can validate all the taxID in an invoice
	err := c.Lookup(ctx, inv)

	// You can validate each party
	err = c.Lookup(ctx, inv.Customer)
	err = c.Lookup(ctx, inv.Supplier)

	// And you can validate independent Tax IDs
	err = c.Lookup(ctx, inv.Customer.TaxID)
}

Handling errors

There are 4 type of errors when doing lookup:

ErrInvalid: Error when the lookup service determines invalid the TaxID: could be because of the format or because it wasn't found on the database.
ErrInput: An error when the input is missing data like the taxId or the party
ErrNotSupported: An error when the country is not supported by our service
ErrNetwork: An error from doing the request, could be a 404, 500. This error does not mean that the taxId is wrong but that the request couldn't be made.

err = c.Lookup(ctx, inv)

if err != nil {
	if e, ok := err.(*Error); ok {
		if e.Is(ErrInvalid) {
			// Case where the taxId is invalid
		} else if e.Is(ErrInput) {
			// Case where something from the input is wrong/missing (taxId, party)
		} else if e.Is(ErrNotSupported) {
			// Case where the country code is not supported
		} else if e.Is(ErrNetwork) {
			// Case where there is a error with the network/request
		}
	}
}

Command Line

The GOBL TIN Lookup tool also includes a command line helper. You can install manually in your Go environment with:

go install ./cmd/gobl.tin

You can write the simple command, that will output a message regarding the TIN of the customer:

gobl.tin lookup ./test/data/invoice-valid.json

But you can also define the party you want to validate the TIN as an argument:

gobl.tin lookup --type customer ./test/data/invoice-valid.json

gobl.tin lookup --type supplier ./test/data/invoice-valid.json

gobl.tin lookup --type both ./test/data/invoice-valid.json

Testing

testify

The library uses testify for testing. To run the tests you can use the command:

go test

Development

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