I’m trying to create a custom form validation. I got the validation part working but not sure how to customize the coercion part automatically. Here’s what I have so far:
schema = Dry::Validation.Form do
configure do
def future_date?(value)
Date.new < Date.parse(value)
end
end
required(:date).filled(:future_date?)
end
@jonahx
filled(:date?, :future_date?)
@solnic ah, so simple. ty sir!
@solnic but say i needed to coerce to some custom object,
MyCustomObj. is this easily possible too?
@jonahx why?
@solnic, i’m not sure i understand the question. why do you coerce into built-in ruby objects like Date or Integer?
why you want to coerce to a custom object :)
i’ll make an example, since my current example the above works well :). but say user enters a hex value for a color into a form. i want to validate it’s a valid hex value and coerce into a custom
Color object that has some nice methods for working with colors, say.
do you need a color object for something else than the validation?
yeah the “domain” code that uses the params is what would use it. So no, the Color wouldn’t be used within the validation.
@jonahx you can do this for more control http://dry-rb.org/gems/dry-validation/input-preprocessing/
explicit type specs will be default API in 1.0.0 btw
@solnic thx for link i will reread that part. one more quick question is there a quick way to define error messages without going through a custom yaml file? eg, in this case i only need to define a single error message for this one custom
future_date? method and i’d prefer to define it in code near where future_date itself is defined
I guess we should document this
@solnic cool, ty. i was just in the midst of using pry to try to figure that out :), you saved me some minutes. i’d even recommend a chrome method over that , but that might be a micro-optimization
@solnic I’m getting an uninitialized constanct Messages error:
schema = Dry::Validation.Form do
configure do
def future_date?(value)
Date.today < value
end
def self.messages
Messages.default.merge(
en: { errors: { future_date?: 'Date must be in the future' } }
)
end
end
required(:date).filled(:date?, :future_date?)
end
i thought it was because i was in
Form instead of Schema but Schema isn’t working for me either...
@solnic finally got it working. not sure if it’s the best way or why the way in your spec didn’t work for me, but the following works:
schema = Dry::Validation.Form do
configure do
def future_date?(value)
Date.today < value
end
def self.messages
default_messages.merge(
en: { errors: { future_date?: 'Date must be in the future' } }
)
end
end
required(:date).filled(:date?, :future_date?)
end
@jonahx IIRC we have
include Dry::Validation in spec_helper there heh
which is probably a stupid idea
@solnic do i have the Piotr stamp of approval on what I did above? :)
@jonahx does it work? :D
@solnic it does! i think it would be better to merge on
messages rather than default_messages, but you get infinite recursion doing that...
it’s tricky stuff
defo a focus for 1.0.0
(to improve it)
ok thx. for my immediate purposes this is totally fine, so nbd
cool
I’m not a fan of defining user-facing things in code, hence I didn’t add any nice way of defining custom messages inside code
it’s possible, but I don’t like it
I get that people often just need the quick’n’dirty solution though
and adding a special yaml file is not always desirable
I just didn’t have the need for a different approach than a yaml file because my context has been always an app with locales, where I keep dry-v’s messages
@solnic fair enough. i agree in most apps of any size at all a yaml file is a better way to go. i just happen to making literally a single page form tool
sure thing, I’m not against it, so if somebody can make it better, then great
fwiw hanami-validation has a way of defining messages along with a predicate definition
IIRC sth like
predicate(:foo?, message: “oh noez”) do.. end
@solnic meh, i prefer your tools :)
it’s based on dry-v (as its validation engine)
but thanks :D
@solnic can you set the Error message when a Dry::Types constraint fails?
@jonahx no, constraints != validation
@solnic if i define a custom email type, which say just requires an
@ symbol, why wouldn’t you want to be able to throw a custom message if someone tries to create an instance with bad data: “An email just have an ‘@‘ symbol”. How is that not an improvement upon a generic message about a contraint violation or whatnot?
@jonahx custom type constraints have different semantics than validation, they crash your system when something is invalid, validation is meant to process whole input and provide information about what validation rule violations.
@solnic right, i understand that. but shouldn’t i be able to define an email type, which raises errors, so that the type itself reflects my contraints, so that’s impossible to have in invalid
Email type, and then, if i want, define my validation using that logic, yet without repeating that logic. that is, a validator which catches the InvalidEmail or whatever it raises, and the processes that as it sees fit. otherwise, aren’t you either 1. duplicating the logic in your type in your validator or 2. breaking apart your type so that the type itself does not contain its own constraints. If i’m missing an alternative please lmk
oh dry-v actually extracts constraints from constrained types and use them as predicates, so there are no exceptions raised at all, and you can just define your messages. I specifically added this feature so that folks can share constraints between types and validation schemas
so ie you can have
Types::Strict::String.constrained(format: /email-regex/) and then add a custom message for format? rule failure
@solnic so to use an example from the docs I define a custom email type
Email = String.constrained(format: /@/). So 2 independent questions: 1. How can I, in my validator, catch specifically a failure of the Email type and create a custom error message for that? 2. I’d still like a custom error in the Email type itself, just in case, eg, I am using the type in a non-validation situation, and eg, hardcode an email in my constructor but mistype ‘me#gmail.com’ instead of ‘me@gmail.com’, when i run the code it would be nice to have a specific error message vs a general statement about constraints
ie, i see the ability to attach custom error messages to custom types as a totally independent question from the semantic difference between validations and constraints
that would be a big addition, not sure if it’s worth the effort tbf :/
are you referring to just question 2. or to 1. as well?
referring to custom exception messages
re question 1. you can’t catch a specific exception from a specific type because exceptions are generic type errors, they are not specific to any type