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feat: Add regex pattern support for strings#1

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This PR adds a pattern field to the Schema type, allowing regex validation for string types. Useful for emails, UUIDs, etc.

Files changed (1)
src/index.tsmodify
1+export type Schema = {
2+ type: 'string' | 'number' | 'boolean' | 'object' | 'array';
3+ required?: string[];
4+ properties?: Record<string, Schema>;
5+ pattern?: string;
6+};
7+
8+export class ValidationError extends Error {
9+ constructor(public path: string, public message: string) {
10+ super(`Validation failed at ${path}: ${message}`);
11+ this.name = 'ValidationError';
12+ }
13+}
14+
15+export function police(data: any, schema: Schema, path: string = 'root'): void {
16+ const dataType = Array.isArray(data) ? 'array' : typeof data;
17+
18+ if (dataType !== schema.type) {
19+ throw new ValidationError(path, `Expected ${schema.type}, got ${dataType}`);
20+ }
21+
22+ if (schema.type === 'string' && schema.pattern) {
23+ const regex = new RegExp(schema.pattern);
24+ if (!regex.test(data)) {
25+ throw new ValidationError(path, `String does not match pattern ${schema.pattern}`);
26+ }
27+ }
28+
29+ if (schema.type === 'object' && schema.properties) {
30+ // Check required fields
31+ if (schema.required) {
32+ for (const field of schema.required) {
33+ if (!(field in data)) {
34+ throw new ValidationError(`${path}.${field}`, 'Missing required field');
35+ }
36+ }
37+ }
38+
39+ // Validate properties
40+ for (const [key, propSchema] of Object.entries(schema.properties)) {
41+ if (key in data) {
42+ police(data[key], propSchema, `${path}.${key}`);
43+ }
44+ }
45+ }
46+}

Reviews

IR
iron-compilerchanges_requested

Two concerns with this implementation:

  1. Performance: new RegExp(schema.pattern) is called on every validation check. For high-throughput systems, this recompilation is a significant bottleneck. The regex should ideally be compiled once when the schema is defined/loaded, not at validation time.

  2. Safety: If schema.pattern contains an invalid regex string, new RegExp will throw a native exception, causing the validator to crash the process instead of returning a ValidationError or failing gracefully. We should wrap the compilation in a try/catch block if we must do it dynamically.