Validators

This crate provides many validators for validating data from users and modeling them to structs without much extra effort.

All validators are separated into different modules and unified for two main types: XXX and XXXValidator where XXX is a type that you want to validate. The former is a struct or a enum, and the latter is a struct which can be considered as a generator of the former. A XXXValidator struct usually contains some values of ValidatorOption in order to use different rules to check data.

For example, the mod domain has Domain and DomainValidator structs. If we want to create a Domain instance, we need to create a DomainValidator instance first. When initialing a DomainValidator, we can choose to make this DomainValidator allow or not allow the input to have or must have a port number.

extern crate validators;

use validators::ValidatorOption;
use validators::domain::{Domain, DomainValidator};

let domain = "tool.magiclen.org:8080".to_string();

let dv = DomainValidator {
    port: ValidatorOption::Allow,
    localhost: ValidatorOption::NotAllow,
};

let domain = dv.parse_string(domain).unwrap();

assert_eq!("tool.magiclen.org:8080", domain.get_full_domain());
assert_eq!("tool.magiclen.org", domain.get_full_domain_without_port());
assert_eq!("org", domain.get_top_level_domain().unwrap());
assert_eq!("tool", domain.get_sub_domain().unwrap());
assert_eq!("magiclen", domain.get_domain());
assert_eq!(8080, domain.get_port().unwrap());

If you want the XXX model to be stricter, you can use its wrapper type which is something like XXXWithPort or XXXWithoutPort. For instance, Domain has some wrappers, such as DomainLocalhostableWithPort, DomainLocalhostableAllowPort and DomainLocalhostableWithoutPort.

extern crate validators;

use validators::domain::{DomainLocalhostableWithPort};

let domain = "tool.magiclen.org:8080".to_string();

let domain = DomainLocalhostableWithPort::from_string(domain).unwrap();

assert_eq!("tool.magiclen.org:8080", domain.get_full_domain());
assert_eq!("tool.magiclen.org", domain.get_full_domain_without_port());
assert_eq!("org", domain.get_top_level_domain().unwrap());
assert_eq!("tool", domain.get_sub_domain().unwrap());
assert_eq!("magiclen", domain.get_domain());
assert_eq!(8080, domain.get_port()); // This function does not use `Option` as its return value, because the struct `DomainLocalhostableWithPort` has already made sure the input must have a port number!

This crate aims to use the simplest and slackest way (normally only use regular expressions) to validate data, in order to minimize the overhead. Therefore, it may not be competent in some critical situations. Use it carefully. Check out the documentation to see more useful validators and wrapper types.

Customization

This crate also provides macros to create customized validated structs for any strings, numbers and Vecs.

For example, to create a struct which only allows "Hi" or "Hello" restricted by a regular expression,

#[macro_use] extern crate validators;

validated_customized_regex_string!(Greet, "^(Hi|Hello)$");

let s = Greet::from_str("Hi").unwrap();

While a regex needs to be compiled before it operates, if you want to reuse a compiled regex, you can add a ref keyword, and pass a static Regex instance to the macro,

#[macro_use] extern crate validators;
#[macro_use] extern crate lazy_static;
extern crate regex;

use regex::Regex;

lazy_static! {
    static ref RE_GREET: Regex = {
        Regex::new("^(Hi|Hello)$").unwrap()
    };
}

validated_customized_regex_string!(Greet, ref RE_GREET);

let s = Greet::from_str("Hi").unwrap();

You can also make your struct public by adding a pub keyword,

#[macro_use] extern crate validators;

validated_customized_regex_string!(pub Greet, "^(Hi|Hello)$");

let s = Greet::from_str("Hi").unwrap();

For numbers limited in a range,

#[macro_use] extern crate validators;

validated_customized_ranged_number!(Score, u8, 0, 100);

let score = Score::from_str("80").unwrap();

For a Vec whose length is limited in a range,

#[macro_use] extern crate validators;

validated_customized_regex_string!(Name, "^[A-Z][a-zA-Z]*( [A-Z][a-zA-Z]*)*$");
validated_customized_ranged_length_vec!(Names, 1, 5);

let mut names = Vec::new();

names.push(Name::from_str("Ron").unwrap());
names.push(Name::from_str("Magic Len").unwrap());

let names = Names::from_vec(names).unwrap();

All validated wrapper types and validated customized structs implement the ValidatedWrapper trait.

Read the documentation to know more helpful customized macros.

Rocket Support

This crate supports Rocket framework. All validated wrapper types and validated customized structs implement the FromFormValue and FromParam traits. To use with Rocket support, you have to enable rocketly feature for this crate.

[dependencies.validators]
version = "*"
features = ["rocketly"]

For example,

#![feature(plugin)]
#![feature(custom_derive)]
#![plugin(rocket_codegen)]

#[macro_use] extern crate validators;

extern crate rocket;

use rocket::request::Form;

use validators::http_url::HttpUrlUnlocalableWithProtocol;
use validators::email::Email;

validated_customized_ranged_number!(PersonID, u8, 0, 100);
validated_customized_regex_string!(Name, r"^[\S ]{1,80}$");
validated_customized_ranged_number!(PersonAge, u8, 0, 130);

#[derive(Debug, FromForm)]
struct ContactModel {
    name: Name,
    age: Option<PersonAge>,
    email: Email,
    url: Option<HttpUrlUnlocalableWithProtocol>
}

#[post("/contact/<id>", data = "<model>")]
fn contact(id: PersonID, model: Form<ContactModel>) -> &'static str {
    println!("{}", id);
    println!("{:?}", model.get());
    "do something..."
}

Serde Support

Serde is a framework for serializing and deserializing Rust data structures efficiently and generically. And again, this crate supports Serde framework. All validated wrapper types and validated customized structs implement the Serialize and Deserialize traits. To use with Serde support, you have to enable serdely feature for this crate.

[dependencies.validators]
version = "*"
features = ["serdely"]

For example,

#[macro_use] extern crate validators;
#[macro_use] extern crate serde_json;

validated_customized_regex_string!(Name, "^[A-Z][a-zA-Z]*( [A-Z][a-zA-Z]*)*$");
validated_customized_ranged_length_vec!(Names, 1, 5);

let mut names = Vec::new();

names.push(Name::from_str("Ron").unwrap());
names.push(Name::from_str("Magic Len").unwrap());

let names = Names::from_vec(names).unwrap();

assert_eq!("[\"Ron\",\"Magic Len\"]", json!(names).to_string());

Crates.io

https://crates.io/crates/validators

Documentation

https://docs.rs/validators

License

MIT