package validator import ( "regexp" "slices" ) // Declare a regular expression for sanity checking the format of email addresses (we'll // use this later in the book). If you're interested, this regular expression pattern is // taken from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#valid-e-mail-address. var ( EmailRX = regexp.MustCompile("^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*$") ) type Validator struct { Errors map[string]string } // New is a helper which creates a new Validator instance with an empty errors map. func New() *Validator { return &Validator{Errors: make(map[string]string)} } func (v *Validator) Valid() bool { return len(v.Errors) == 0 } // AddError adds an error message to the map (so long as no entry already exists for // the given key). func (v *Validator) AddError(key, message string) { if _, exists := v.Errors[key]; !exists { v.Errors[key] = message } } // Check adds an error message to the map only if a validation check is not 'ok'. func (v *Validator) Check(ok bool, key, message string) { if !ok { v.AddError(key, message) } } // Generic function which returns true if a specific value is in a list of permitted // values. func PermittedValue[T comparable](value T, permittedValues ...T) bool { return slices.Contains(permittedValues, value) } // Matches returns true if a string value matches a specific regexp pattern. func Matches(value string, rx *regexp.Regexp) bool { return rx.MatchString(value) } // Generic function which returns true if all values in a slice are unique. func Unique[T comparable](values []T) bool { uniqueValues := make(map[T]bool) for _, value := range values { uniqueValues[value] = true } return len(values) == len(uniqueValues) }