@appliedblockchain/assert-combinators

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Summary

Functional assertion combinators.

Name	Type	Runtime
Primitive	string	$.string
Primitive	number	$.number
Primitive	boolean	$.boolean
Primitive	undefined	$.undefined
Primitive	null	$.null
Undefined or null	undefined | null	$.nil
Undefined or A	undefined | A	$.undefinedOr(a)
Nullable A	null | A	$.nullOr(a)
Nillable A	undefined | null | A	$.nilOr(a)
Unknown	unknown	$.unknown
Array	A[]	$.array(a)
Object	{ a: A, b: B }	$.object({ a, b })
Exact object	{ a: A, b: B }	$.exact({ a, b })
Record	Record<K, V>	$.record(k, v)
Keyed object	Record<string, undefined | V>	$.keyed(v)
Intersection	A & B	$.and(a, b)
Primitive type union	'A' | 'B'	$.oneOf('A', 'B')
Union	A | B	$.or(a, b)
Date string YYYY-MM-DD	stringweaker	$.dateString
Defined	Exclude<A, undefined>	$.defined(a)
Literal primitive	"foo", 42	$.eq('foo'), $.eq(42)
Tuple	[number, string]	$.tuple($.number, $.string)
Finite number	numberweaker	$.finite
Positive number	numberweaker	$.positive
Safe integer	numberweaker	$.safeInteger
Greater than	numberweaker	$.gt(42)
Greater than	numberweaker	$.gt(42)
Greater or equal than	numberweaker	$.gte(42)
Non blank string	stringweaker	$.nonBlankString
Regexp	stringweaker	$.regexp(/^[a-z]+$/i)
Strftime formatted string	stringweaker	$.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

Utility functions

• errorOf – instead of throwing, returns Error or undefined if assertion passes.
• identity
• if
• implies
• in
• predicate
• rethrow

Examples

import * as $ from '@appliedblockchain/assert-combinators'

ws.on('message', _ => {

  const { method, agree } = $.object({
    method: $.string,
    agree: $.boolean
  })(JSON.parse(_))

  // Types are correct:
  // method: string
  // agree: boolean

})

Not precise types

In some cases runtime type assertions provide stronger guarantees than static types.

For example $.finite asserts that the value is not only a number but also that is not NaN, Infinity or -Infinity.

Opaque types section provides solution for some cases.

Opaque types

Unlike Flow, TypeScript doesn't directly support opaque types.

However, they can be emulated by intersecting with object containing unique property type which exists in static type system only. It does not exist in runtime value.

type Finite = number & { readonly _tag: 'Finite' }

Opaque types allow to design code in such a way that value of the type can be created in one place – as result of runtime type assertion – only. The only possible way of creating values of this type is to create valid values. Those assertions have to happen at construction and I/O boundaries only. Once value is validated, it enters static type system. It doesn't have to be re-validated anywhere else in the code. Usage of the value is safe, guaranteed to conform to this assertion.

Good examples of opaque type candidates are NonEmptyArray<T>, Positive, Email. ValidatedEmail – ie. an email that passed some async validation can be used to annotate function parameter for functions that should be used only for validated emails – without the need for re-validating email in each function's body.

Optional tuple tail

When tail of tuple accepts undefined values, resulting tuple may have shorter length than arity of assertion function.

const assertMyTuple = $.tuple($.string, $.undefinedOr($.number))
assertMyTuple([ 'foo' ]) // ok
assertMyTuple([ 'foo', 1 ]) // ok

A good rule of thumb is to destructure tuple elements if it accepts undefined at tail position to make sure the code doesn't rely on the length, ie:

const [ myString, maybeNumber ] = assertMyTuple(input)

Exhaustive switch

Use never assertion to force exhaustiveness on switch statements:

import * as $ from '@appliedblockchain/assert-combinators'

type X = 'a' | 'b' | 'c'

const assertX: $.Assert<X> =
  $.oneOf('a', 'b', 'c')

const x: X = assertX(JSON.parse('"c"'))
switch (x) {
  case 'a':
  case 'b':
    console.log(x)
    break
  default:

  // Argument of type 'string' is not assignable to parameter of type 'never'.ts(2345)
  // const x: "c"
  $.never(x)
}

License

MIT License

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