Predicado ✅

Predicado is a small library for convenient predicate driven validations. It was built on top of the data.validation module from Folktale.

Getting Started

$ npm install predicado --save

import { validate } from "predicado";

const validations = [
  {
    error: "Must have email.",
    predicate: user => !!user.email
  },
  {
    error: "Must have password.",
    predicate: user => !!user.password
  }
];

const validUser = {
  email: "[email protected]",
  password: "cupcake"
};

console.log(validate(validations, validUser));
// => Validation.Success({ email: "[email protected]", password: "cupcake" })

const invalidUser = {
  email: "[email protected]"
};

console.log(validate(validations, invalidUser));
// => Validation.Failure([ "Must have password." ])

Background

In summary, the validate function can be described as:

validate :: (validations, target) -> Validation

Its first argument validations is an array of validation objects, each containing an error property and a predicate property. An error could be any arbitrary object that will populate the validation results in case of failure. The predicate is a function to be called agains the target data structure. In the example above, there are two validations, one to check the presence of an email property and another one to check the presence of a password property in the target object.

The result returned by validate is a Validation container. The Validation concrete instances are of two possible subtypes: Success or Failure. When all of the predicates are true for a given target then validate returns a Success instance wrapping the target object. Otherwise it returns a Failure instance holding a list of all the corresponding errors.

From there you can manipulate the validation result by following the Validation API. Here is an example:

const onSuccess = user => "This user is totally valid!";
const onFailure = errors => "A valid user:\n" + errors.map(e => "* " + e).join("\n");

const message = validate(validations, invalidUser).fold(onFailure, onSuccess);

console.log(message);
// => A valid user:
// => * Must have an email.
// => * Must have a password.

Autocurry

The validate interface favors curry, so that you can define your custom validation functions in a point-free way:

import { validate } from "predicado";

const validations = [
  {
    error: "Must have email.",
    predicate: user => !!user.email
  },
  {
    error: "Must have password.",
    predicate: user => !!user.password
  }
];

const validateUser = validate(validations);

const validUser = {
  email: "[email protected]",
  password: "cupcake"
};

console.log(validateUser(validUser));
// => Validation.Success({ email: "[email protected]", password: "cupcake" })

const invalidUser = {
  email: "[email protected]"
};

console.log(validateUser(invalidUser));
// => Validation.Failure([ "Must have password." ])

License

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