💯Go Struct and Field validation, including Cross Field, Cross Struct, Map, Slice and Array diving
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Package validator

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Package validator implements value validations for structs and individual fields based on tags.

It has the following unique features:

  • Cross Field and Cross Struct validations by using validation tags or custom validators.
  • Slice, Array and Map diving, which allows any or all levels of a multidimensional field to be validated.
  • Handles type interface by determining it's underlying type prior to validation.
  • Handles custom field types such as sql driver Valuer see Valuer
  • Alias validation tags, which allows for mapping of several validations to a single tag for easier defining of validations on structs
  • Extraction of custom defined Field Name e.g. can specify to extract the JSON name while validating and have it available in the resulting FieldError
  • Customizable i18n aware error messages.
  • Default validator for the gin web framework; upgrading from v8 to v9 in gin see here

Installation

Use go get.

go get gopkg.in/go-playground/validator.v9

Then import the validator package into your own code.

import "gopkg.in/go-playground/validator.v9"

Error Return Value

Validation functions return type error

They return type error to avoid the issue discussed in the following, where err is always != nil:

Validator only InvalidValidationError for bad validation input, nil or ValidationErrors as type error; so, in your code all you need to do is check if the error returned is not nil, and if it's not check if error is InvalidValidationError ( if necessary, most of the time it isn't ) type cast it to type ValidationErrors like so:

err := validate.Struct(mystruct)
validationErrors := err.(validator.ValidationErrors)

Usage and documentation

Please see http://godoc.org/gopkg.in/go-playground/validator.v9 for detailed usage docs.

Examples:

Benchmarks

Run on MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 using Go version go1.7 darwin/amd64
BenchmarkFieldSuccess-8                                       	20000000	       105 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldSuccessParallel-8                               	50000000	        35.1 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldFailure-8                                       	 5000000	       337 ns/op	     208 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldFailureParallel-8                               	20000000	       120 ns/op	     208 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveSuccess-8                                   	 2000000	       716 ns/op	     201 B/op	      11 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveSuccessParallel-8                           	10000000	       253 ns/op	     201 B/op	      11 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveFailure-8                                   	 1000000	      1060 ns/op	     412 B/op	      16 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveFailureParallel-8                           	 5000000	       360 ns/op	     413 B/op	      16 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeSuccess-8                             	 5000000	       299 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeSuccessParallel-8                     	20000000	        86.0 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeFailure-8                             	 5000000	       341 ns/op	     208 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeFailureParallel-8                     	20000000	       140 ns/op	     208 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagSuccess-8                                  	 2000000	       893 ns/op	      16 B/op	       1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagSuccessParallel-8                          	 5000000	       431 ns/op	      16 B/op	       1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagFailure-8                                  	 2000000	       563 ns/op	     224 B/op	       5 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagFailureParallel-8                          	 5000000	       417 ns/op	     224 B/op	       5 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationSuccess-8                       	 5000000	       339 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationSuccessParallel-8               	20000000	       114 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationFailure-8                       	 2000000	       630 ns/op	     304 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationFailureParallel-8               	 5000000	       291 ns/op	     304 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeSuccess-8                      	 3000000	       540 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeSuccessParallel-8              	10000000	       176 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeFailure-8                      	 2000000	       821 ns/op	     424 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeFailureParallel-8              	 5000000	       336 ns/op	     440 B/op	      10 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialSuccess-8                               	 2000000	       686 ns/op	     256 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialSuccessParallel-8                       	 5000000	       282 ns/op	     256 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialFailure-8                               	 2000000	       931 ns/op	     480 B/op	      11 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialFailureParallel-8                       	 5000000	       394 ns/op	     480 B/op	      11 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptSuccess-8                                	 1000000	      1017 ns/op	     496 B/op	      12 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptSuccessParallel-8                        	10000000	       233 ns/op	     240 B/op	       5 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptFailure-8                                	 2000000	       864 ns/op	     464 B/op	      10 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptFailureParallel-8                        	 5000000	       393 ns/op	     464 B/op	      10 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldSuccess-8                      	 3000000	       552 ns/op	      72 B/op	       3 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldSuccessParallel-8              	10000000	       202 ns/op	      72 B/op	       3 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldFailure-8                      	 2000000	       798 ns/op	     304 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldFailureParallel-8              	 5000000	       356 ns/op	     304 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldSuccess-8           	 2000000	       825 ns/op	      80 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldSuccessParallel-8   	 5000000	       300 ns/op	      80 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldFailure-8           	 2000000	      1103 ns/op	     320 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldFailureParallel-8   	 3000000	       433 ns/op	     320 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleSuccess-8                                	 5000000	       360 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleSuccessParallel-8                        	20000000	       110 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleFailure-8                                	 2000000	       783 ns/op	     424 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleFailureParallel-8                        	 5000000	       358 ns/op	     424 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexSuccess-8                               	 1000000	      2120 ns/op	     128 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexSuccessParallel-8                       	 2000000	       659 ns/op	     128 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexFailure-8                               	  300000	      5126 ns/op	    3041 B/op	      53 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexFailureParallel-8                       	 1000000	      2261 ns/op	    3041 B/op	      53 allocs/op

Complimentary Software

Here is a list of software that compliments using this library either pre or post validation.

  • form - Decodes url.Values into Go value(s) and Encodes Go value(s) into url.Values. Dual Array and Full map support.
  • Conform - Trims, sanitizes & scrubs data based on struct tags.

How to Contribute

Make a pull request...

License

Distributed under MIT License, please see license file in code for more details.