# prost-protovalidate-build
Build-time code generator for zero-cost Protocol Buffer validation using [buf.validate](https://github.com/bufbuild/protovalidate) rules, built for `prost`.
Generates `impl prost_protovalidate::Validate` for messages with standard `buf.validate` field constraints. Messages containing CEL expressions are excluded at build time and fall back to runtime evaluation via `prost_protovalidate::Validator`.
## Usage
Add the dependency to your `Cargo.toml`:
```toml
[build-dependencies]
prost-build = "0.14"
prost-protovalidate-build = "0.4"
```
In your `build.rs`:
```rust,no_run
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let descriptor_path = std::path::PathBuf::from(std::env::var("OUT_DIR")?)
.join("file_descriptor_set.bin");
prost_build::Config::new()
.file_descriptor_set_path(&descriptor_path)
.compile_protos(&["proto/service.proto"], &["proto/"])?;
prost_protovalidate_build::Builder::new()
.file_descriptor_set_path(&descriptor_path)?
.compile()?;
Ok(())
}
```
Include the generated validation code alongside prost output:
```rust,ignore
include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/validate_impl.rs"));
```
## Supported Rules
- **Scalar**: bool const, numeric comparisons (gt/gte/lt/lte/const/in/not_in), string (min_len/max_len/pattern/prefix/suffix/contains/in/not_in/well-known formats), bytes (min_len/max_len/pattern/prefix/suffix/in/not_in/well-known formats), enum (const/in/not_in/defined_only)
- **Repeated**: min_items/max_items, per-item scalar constraints
- **Map**: min_pairs/max_pairs, per-key and per-value scalar constraints
- **Message**: required, nested recursive validation
- **Duration/Timestamp**: comparison constraints (gt/gte/lt/lte/const)
- **FieldMask**: const, in/not_in with prefix path matching
- **Any**: type_url in/not_in
- **WKT wrappers**: `google.protobuf.*Value` types unwrapped to inner scalar rules
- **Oneof**: required (must have a variant set)
- **Ignore**: `IGNORE_ALWAYS`, `IGNORE_IF_ZERO_VALUE`, `IGNORE_UNSPECIFIED` with presence semantics
## Limitations
- **CEL expressions** are not evaluated at build time. Messages with CEL rules (field-level or message-level) are skipped with a `cargo:warning`.
- **Predefined CEL constraints** (custom rules) are not supported.
- **Nested runtime-only dependencies** (for example, nested CEL or unsupported nested rules) cause parent message codegen to be skipped to prevent partial validation.
## License
[MIT](../../LICENSE-MIT) OR [Apache-2.0](../../LICENSE-APACHE)