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:

• http://stackoverflow.com/a/29138676/3158232
• https://github.com/go-playground/validator/issues/134

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:

• Simple
• Custom Field Types
• Struct Level
• Translations & Custom Errors
• Gin upgrade and/or override validator
• wash - an example application putting it all together

Benchmarks

Run on i5-7600 16 GB DDR4-2400 using Go version go1.8 linux/amd64

BenchmarkFieldSuccess-4                                       	20000000	        74.3 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldSuccessParallel-4                               	50000000	        31.5 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldFailure-4                                       	 3000000	       556 ns/op	     208 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldFailureParallel-4                               	20000000	        88.7 ns/op	     208 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveSuccess-4                                   	 2000000	       630 ns/op	     201 B/op	      11 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveSuccessParallel-4                           	10000000	       173 ns/op	     201 B/op	      11 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveFailure-4                                   	 1000000	      1350 ns/op	     412 B/op	      16 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveFailureParallel-4                           	 5000000	       250 ns/op	     412 B/op	      16 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeSuccess-4                             	10000000	       202 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeSuccessParallel-4                     	20000000	        63.5 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeFailure-4                             	 5000000	       568 ns/op	     208 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeFailureParallel-4                     	20000000	        87.5 ns/op	     208 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagSuccess-4                                  	 2000000	       703 ns/op	      16 B/op	       1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagSuccessParallel-4                          	 3000000	       447 ns/op	      16 B/op	       1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagFailure-4                                  	 3000000	       604 ns/op	     224 B/op	       5 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagFailureParallel-4                          	 5000000	       353 ns/op	     224 B/op	       5 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationSuccess-4                       	10000000	       190 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationSuccessParallel-4               	30000000	        59.9 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationFailure-4                       	 2000000	       705 ns/op	     304 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationFailureParallel-4               	10000000	       146 ns/op	     304 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeSuccess-4                      	 5000000	       361 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeSuccessParallel-4              	20000000	       101 ns/op	      32 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeFailure-4                      	 1000000	      1210 ns/op	     424 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeFailureParallel-4              	10000000	       196 ns/op	     440 B/op	      10 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructFilteredSuccess-4                              	 2000000	       757 ns/op	     288 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructFilteredSuccessParallel-4                      	10000000	       167 ns/op	     288 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructFilteredFailure-4                              	 3000000	       619 ns/op	     256 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructFilteredFailureParallel-4                      	10000000	       134 ns/op	     256 B/op	       7 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialSuccess-4                               	 2000000	       687 ns/op	     256 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialSuccessParallel-4                       	10000000	       159 ns/op	     256 B/op	       6 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialFailure-4                               	 1000000	      1281 ns/op	     480 B/op	      11 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialFailureParallel-4                       	10000000	       218 ns/op	     480 B/op	      11 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptSuccess-4                                	 1000000	      1041 ns/op	     496 B/op	      12 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptSuccessParallel-4                        	10000000	       140 ns/op	     240 B/op	       5 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptFailure-4                                	 1000000	      1014 ns/op	     464 B/op	      10 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptFailureParallel-4                        	10000000	       201 ns/op	     464 B/op	      10 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldSuccess-4                      	 5000000	       364 ns/op	      72 B/op	       3 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldSuccessParallel-4              	20000000	       103 ns/op	      72 B/op	       3 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldFailure-4                      	 2000000	       789 ns/op	     304 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldFailureParallel-4              	10000000	       174 ns/op	     304 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldSuccess-4           	 3000000	       522 ns/op	      80 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldSuccessParallel-4   	10000000	       146 ns/op	      80 B/op	       4 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldFailure-4           	 2000000	       879 ns/op	     320 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldFailureParallel-4   	10000000	       225 ns/op	     320 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleSuccess-4                                	10000000	       223 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleSuccessParallel-4                        	20000000	        63.3 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleFailure-4                                	 2000000	      1097 ns/op	     424 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleFailureParallel-4                        	10000000	       182 ns/op	     424 B/op	       9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexSuccess-4                               	 1000000	      1362 ns/op	     128 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexSuccessParallel-4                       	 5000000	       359 ns/op	     128 B/op	       8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexFailure-4                               	  300000	      6446 ns/op	    3040 B/op	      53 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexFailureParallel-4                       	 1000000	      1203 ns/op	    3040 B/op	      53 allocs/op

Complementary Software

Here is a list of software that complements 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 within the code for more details.