// See also https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/validation-snippets-for-go // for more validation snippets package validator import ( "slices" "strings" "unicode/utf8" ) type Validator struct { FieldErrors map[string]string } // Valid() returns true if the FieldErrors map doesn't contain any entries. func (v *Validator) Valid() bool { return len(v.FieldErrors) == 0 } // AddFieldError() adds an error message to the FieldErrors map (so long as no // entry already exists for the given key). func (v *Validator) AddFieldError(key, message string) { if v.FieldErrors == nil { v.FieldErrors = make(map[string]string) } if _, exists := v.FieldErrors[key]; !exists { v.FieldErrors[key] = message } } // CheckField() adds an error message to the FieldErrors map only if a // validation check is not 'ok'. func (v *Validator) CheckField(ok bool, key, message string) { if !ok { v.AddFieldError(key, message) } } // NotBlank() returns true if a value is not an empty string. func NotBlank(value string) bool { return strings.TrimSpace(value) != "" } // MaxChars() returns true if a value contains no more than n characters. func MaxChars(value string, n int) bool { return utf8.RuneCountInString(value) <= n } // PermittedValue() returns true if a value is in a list of specific permitted // values. func PermittedValue[T comparable](value T, permittedValues ...T) bool { return slices.Contains(permittedValues, value) }