tincan-validator

Tincan Validator

Validates Tincan API statements, activities, agents, and states

Installation

npm install tincan-validator

Usage

Can be used sync or async style.

var validator = require("tincan-validator");

var statementErrors = validator.validateStatement(myStatement);
console.log(statementErrors);

validator.validateActivity(myActivity, function(activityErrors){
    console.log(activityErrors);
});

Available methods

• validateStatement(statement, callback)
• validateAgent(agent, callback)
• validateActivity(activity, callback)
• validateState(state, callback) //TODO

Additional methods

These are used internally by the above methods, but are available if you need them.

• validateActor(actor, callback)
• validateGroup(group, callback)
• validateVerb(verb, callback)
• validateLanguageMap(languageMap, callback)
• validateObject(object, callback)
• validateResult(result, callback)
• validateISO8601(timestamp, callback)
• validateContext(context, callback)
• validateVersion(version, callback)
• validateAuthority(authority, callback)

Developing

npm install
grunt test
grunt build

Development is all coffeescript located in /src.

Tests are located in /test with mock validation objects in /test/mocks

Any contributions should pass all existing unit tests before a pull request will be accepted.

Ideally unit tests should be written for contributions

Todo

• validate statement context
• validate statement authority
• validate states
• descriptions for all errors
• add some failure tests