icu-validator
Validate a data source if all strings in the data source conforms to ICU standard.
Supports -
- Individual text
- Object of key value pair where value corresponds to texts
- A JSON file path
- A directory path contaning JSON files
Usage
Install using yarn -
yarn add icu-validator -D
or using npm
npm install icu-validator --save-dev
Import or require the module
import { validate, validateFile, validateDirectory } from 'icu-validator';
const { validate, validateFile, validateDirectory } = require('icu-validator');
Basic use case - validating a string
const { validate } = require('icu-validator');
const validationResult = validate('Hello {{name}}, how are you?');
const validationResult = validate('Hello {name}, how are you?');
You can pretty print the errors by passing a flag prettyPrint: true
const validationResult = validate('Hello {{name}}, how are you?', { prettyPrint: true });
Validating an object of key value pairs
const obj = {
"welcome": "Hello {name}, how are you?",
"examples": {
"pluralization": "Hi {name}, you have {{numProducts, plural, =0 {no items} =1 {one item} other {# items}} in cart"
}
};
validate(obj, { prettyPrint: true });
Validating a JSON file or a directory containing many JSON files
Validate method does accept a file or directory path as first argument. But one very important thing to keep in mind - the validate method is completely sync, so all file & directory read operations will be sync.
It is recommended to use dedicated validateFile
and validateDirectory
async methods.
validateFile(filePath).then((result) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
});
validateDirectory(directoryPath).then((result) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
});
Try prettyPrint: true
if you want to show the errors on screen
Options
validate
, validateFile
and validateDirectory
take a 2nd argument - options
to customize the output format and validation rules/
validate(source: string | object, options: object)
validateFile(filePath: string, options: object)
validateDirectory(directoryPath: string, options: object)
Options include -
prettyPrint
- default (false
)
Print the validation result and errors in console.
verbose
- default (false
)
Provide complete execution logs when printing the results.
ignoreTransTag
- default (false
)
If you are using react-i18next
with ICU, you will encounter situations where you need to externalize HTML elements. For react-i18next, the recommended method is Trans component. The externalized string resembles a format - Please click <0>here</0>
. These are usually termed as invalid strings. Use this option if you want to ignore such tags from validation rule.
parseOptions
Under the hood, icu-validator
uses formatjs
parser. You can customize the validation rules by customizing the parser -
ignoreTag
Whether to treat HTML/XML tags as string literal
requiresOtherClause
Should select
, selectordinal
, and plural
arguments always include the other
case clause
shouldParseSkeletons
Whether to parse number/datetime skeleton into Intl.NumberFormatOptions and Intl.DateTimeFormatOptions, respectively.
captureLocation
Capture location info in AST
locale
Instance of Intl.Locale to resolve locale-dependent skeleton