/ 
MooseX-Validation-Doctypes-0.05
River stage zero No dependents
/ MooseX::Validation::Doctypes

NAME

MooseX::Validation::Doctypes - validation of nested data structures with Moose type constraints

VERSION

version 0.05

SYNOPSIS

use MooseX::Validation::Doctypes;

doctype 'Location' => {
    id      => 'Str',
    city    => 'Str',
    state   => 'Str',
    country => 'Str',
    zipcode => 'Int',
};

doctype 'Person' => {
    id    => 'Str',
    name  => {
        # ... nested data structures
        first_name => 'Str',
        last_name  => 'Str',
    },
    title   => 'Str',
    # ... complex Moose types
    friends => 'ArrayRef[Person]',
    # ... using doctypes same as regular types
    address => 'Maybe[Location]',
};

use JSON;

# note the lack of Location,
# which is fine because it
# was Maybe[Location]

my $data = decode_json(q[
    {
        "id": "1234-A",
        "name": {
            "first_name" : "Bob",
            "last_name"  : "Smith",
         },
        "title": "CIO",
        "friends" : [],
    }
]);

use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;

my $person = find_type_constraint('Person');
my $errors = $person->validate($data);

use Data::Dumper;

warn Dumper($errors->errors)     if $errors->has_errors;
warn Dumper($errors->extra_data) if $errors->has_extra_data;

DESCRIPTION

NOTE: The API for this module is still in flux as I try to decide on how it should work. You have been warned!

This module allows you to declare Moose type constraints to validate nested data structures as you may get back from a JSON web service or something along those lines. The doctype declaration can be any arbitrarily nested structure of hashrefs and arrayrefs, and will be used to validate a data structure which has that same form. The leaf values in the doctype should be Moose type constraints, which will be used to validate the leaf nodes in the given data structure.

FUNCTIONS

doctype $name, $doctype

Declares a new doctype type constraint. $name is optional, and if it is not given, an anonymous type constraint is created instead.

maybe_doctype $name, $doctype

Identical to doctype, except that undefined values are also allowed. This is useful when nesting doctypes, as in:

doctype 'Person' => {
    id      => 'Str',
    name    => maybe_doctype({
        first => 'Str',
        last  => 'Str',
    }),
    address => 'Str',
};

This way, { first => 'Bob', last => 'Smith' } is a valid name, and it's also valid to not provide a name, but an invalid name will still throw an error.

BUGS

No known bugs.

Please report any bugs through RT: email bug-moosex-validation-doctypes at rt.cpan.org, or browse to http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=MooseX-Validation-Doctypes.

SEE ALSO

Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint

MooseX::Types::Structured

SUPPORT

You can find this documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc MooseX::Validation::Doctypes

You can also look for information at:

AUTHOR

Jesse Luehrs <doy at cpan dot org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2012 by Jesse Luehrs.

This is free software, licensed under:

The MIT (X11) License