Typical

This library provides a DSL to describe the types of your data and ways to validate them.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "typical"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install typical

To specify type information, you can use the Typical::DSL module.

require "typical/dsl"
include Typical::DSL

The bang methods are used to define types.

String!                    # => #<Type:String>

You can allow multiple types by creating a union of them.

String! | Integer!         # => #<Type:Union [#<Type:String>, #<Type:Integer>]>

Sometimes a field can also be null.

String! | Integer! | null  # => #<Type:Union [#<Type:String>, , #<Type:Integer>, #<Type:NilClass>]>

If you’re defining a single type, but nullable, use the question mark methods instead.

String?                    # => #<Type:Union [#<Type:String>, #<Type:NilClass>]>

You can have collections too, you use them like you normally would.

Set!(String!, Integer!)    # => #<Type:Set [#<Type:Union [#<Type:String>, #<Type:Integer>]>]>
Array!(String!, Integer!)  # => #<Type:Array [#<Type:Union [#<Type:String>, #<Type:Integer>]>]>
Hash!(String! => Integer!) # => #<Type:Hash { [#<Type:Union [#<Type:String>]>] => [#<Type:Union [#<Type:Integer>]>] }>

NOTE: This is not yet implemented.

typing = Array!(String!)
typing.valid?("string")    # => false
typing.valid?([nil])       # => false
typing.valid?([])          # => true
typing.valid?(["string"])  # => true

NOTE: This is not yet implemented.

This Mongoid integration allows you to both reflect on the data types in your database and validate incoming data.

class Artist
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Typical::Mongoid

  field :name, type: String?
  field :image_versions, type: Array!(Symbol!)
  field :image_urls, type: Hash!(String! => String!)
end

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/alloy/typical.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.