lua-LIVR

Overview

lua-LIVR is a lightweight validator supporting Language Independent Validation Rules Specification (LIVR).

Features:

Rules are declarative and language independent
Any number of rules for each field
Return together errors for all fields
Excludes all fields that do not have validation rules described
Has possibility to validatate complex hierarchical structures
Easy to describe and understand rules
Returns understandable error codes (not error messages)
Easy to add own rules
Multipurpose (user input validation, configs validation, contracts programming, etc)

The LIVR specifications are available on https://livr-spec.org/.

lua-LIVR is now stable.

It's developed for Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 & 5.4.

lua-LIVR source can be downloaded from Framagit.

The Teal type definition of this library is available here.

With Lua 5.1 & 5.2, lua-LIVR depends on compat53.

lua-LIVR have two optional dependencies lua-utf8 & Lrexlib-PCRE.

lua-LIVR is available via LuaRocks:

luarocks install lua-livr

lua-LIVR is available via opm:

opm get fperrad/lua-livr

or manually, with:

make install

The test suite requires the modules lua-TestAssertion, dkjson & LuaFileSystem.

make test

This library is licensed under the terms of the MIT/X11 license, like Lua itself.