Package validator
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Package validator implements value validations for structs and individual fields based on tags.
It has the following **unique** features:
- Cross Field and Cross Struct validations by using validation tags or custom validators.
- Slice, Array and Map diving, which allows any or all levels of a multidimensional field to be validated.
- Handles type interface by determining it's underlying type prior to validation.
- Handles custom field types such as sql driver Valuer see [Valuer](https://golang.org/src/database/sql/driver/types.go?s=1210:1293#L29)
- Alias validation tags, which allows for mapping of several validations to a single tag for easier defining of validations on structs
- Extraction of custom defined Field Name e.g. can specify to extract the JSON name while validating and have it available in the resulting FieldError
- Default validator for the [gin](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin) web framework; upgrading from v8 to v9 in gin see [here](https://github.com/go-playground/validator/tree/v9/examples/gin-upgrading-overriding)
Installation
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Use go get.
go get gopkg.in/go-playground/validator.v9
Then import the validator package into your own code.
import "gopkg.in/go-playground/validator.v9"
Error Return Value
-------
Validation functions return type error
They return type error to avoid the issue discussed in the following, where err is always != nil:
* http://stackoverflow.com/a/29138676/3158232
* https://github.com/go-playground/validator/issues/134
Validator only InvalidValidationError for bad validation input, nil or ValidationErrors as type error; so, in your code all you need to do is check if the error returned is not nil, and if it's not check if error is InvalidValidationError ( if necessary, most of the time it isn't ) type cast it to type ValidationErrors like so:
```go
err := validate.Struct(mystruct)
validationErrors := err.(validator.ValidationErrors)
```
Usage and documentation
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Please see http://godoc.org/gopkg.in/go-playground/validator.v9 for detailed usage docs.
##### Examples:
- [Simple](https://github.com/go-playground/validator/blob/v9/examples/simple/main.go)
- [Custom Field Types](https://github.com/go-playground/validator/blob/v9/examples/custom/main.go)
- [Struct Level](https://github.com/go-playground/validator/blob/v9/examples/struct-level/main.go)
- [Translations & Custom Errors](https://github.com/go-playground/validator/blob/v9/examples/translations/main.go)
- [Gin upgrade and/or override validator](https://github.com/go-playground/validator/tree/v9/examples/gin-upgrading-overriding)
- [wash - an example application putting it all together](https://github.com/bluesuncorp/wash)
Benchmarks
------
###### Run on MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 using Go version go1.7 darwin/amd64
```go
BenchmarkFieldSuccess-8 20000000 105 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldSuccessParallel-8 50000000 35.1 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldFailure-8 5000000 337 ns/op 208 B/op 4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldFailureParallel-8 20000000 120 ns/op 208 B/op 4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveSuccess-8 2000000 716 ns/op 201 B/op 11 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveSuccessParallel-8 10000000 253 ns/op 201 B/op 11 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveFailure-8 1000000 1060 ns/op 412 B/op 16 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldDiveFailureParallel-8 5000000 360 ns/op 413 B/op 16 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeSuccess-8 5000000 299 ns/op 32 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeSuccessParallel-8 20000000 86.0 ns/op 32 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeFailure-8 5000000 341 ns/op 208 B/op 4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldCustomTypeFailureParallel-8 20000000 140 ns/op 208 B/op 4 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagSuccess-8 2000000 893 ns/op 16 B/op 1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagSuccessParallel-8 5000000 431 ns/op 16 B/op 1 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagFailure-8 2000000 563 ns/op 224 B/op 5 allocs/op
BenchmarkFieldOrTagFailureParallel-8 5000000 417 ns/op 224 B/op 5 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationSuccess-8 5000000 339 ns/op 32 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationSuccessParallel-8 20000000 114 ns/op 32 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationFailure-8 2000000 630 ns/op 304 B/op 8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructLevelValidationFailureParallel-8 5000000 291 ns/op 304 B/op 8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeSuccess-8 3000000 540 ns/op 32 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeSuccessParallel-8 10000000 176 ns/op 32 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeFailure-8 2000000 821 ns/op 424 B/op 9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCustomTypeFailureParallel-8 5000000 336 ns/op 440 B/op 10 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialSuccess-8 2000000 686 ns/op 256 B/op 6 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialSuccessParallel-8 5000000 282 ns/op 256 B/op 6 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialFailure-8 2000000 931 ns/op 480 B/op 11 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructPartialFailureParallel-8 5000000 394 ns/op 480 B/op 11 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptSuccess-8 1000000 1017 ns/op 496 B/op 12 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptSuccessParallel-8 10000000 233 ns/op 240 B/op 5 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptFailure-8 2000000 864 ns/op 464 B/op 10 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructExceptFailureParallel-8 5000000 393 ns/op 464 B/op 10 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldSuccess-8 3000000 552 ns/op 72 B/op 3 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldSuccessParallel-8 10000000 202 ns/op 72 B/op 3 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldFailure-8 2000000 798 ns/op 304 B/op 8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossFieldFailureParallel-8 5000000 356 ns/op 304 B/op 8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldSuccess-8 2000000 825 ns/op 80 B/op 4 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldSuccessParallel-8 5000000 300 ns/op 80 B/op 4 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldFailure-8 2000000 1103 ns/op 320 B/op 9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleCrossStructCrossFieldFailureParallel-8 3000000 433 ns/op 320 B/op 9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleSuccess-8 5000000 360 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleSuccessParallel-8 20000000 110 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleFailure-8 2000000 783 ns/op 424 B/op 9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSimpleFailureParallel-8 5000000 358 ns/op 424 B/op 9 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexSuccess-8 1000000 2120 ns/op 128 B/op 8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexSuccessParallel-8 2000000 659 ns/op 128 B/op 8 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexFailure-8 300000 5126 ns/op 3041 B/op 53 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructComplexFailureParallel-8 1000000 2261 ns/op 3041 B/op 53 allocs/op
```
Complimentary Software
----------------------
Here is a list of software that compliments using this library either pre or post validation.
* [form](https://github.com/go-playground/form) - Decodes url.Values into Go value(s) and Encodes Go value(s) into url.Values. Dual Array and Full map support.
* [Conform](https://github.com/leebenson/conform) - Trims, sanitizes & scrubs data based on struct tags.
How to Contribute
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Make a pull request...
License
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Distributed under MIT License, please see license file in code for more details.
