Re: [ANN] validate.args - validate function arguments

[Fabien <fleutot+lua@...>]

Here's another take on argument validation, written in C. It focuses on being unobtrusive in the code, rather than offering very sophisticated validation options. When a function is called with incorrect parameters, it will produce an error formatted as those produced by the plain Lua checking APIs "luaL_checkxxx(L, idx)".

https://svn.anyware-tech.com/wavecom/openat-lua/trunk/oatlua/src-porting/luaw_checks.c

The file is self-sufficient; its usage is described in its first comment block; it is available under the MIT licence.

In a nutshell, if a function expects as arguments a number, followed by an optional string, then finally either a table or a boolean, it can be protected by calling:

checks('number', '?string', 'table|boolean')

Some mechanisms are provided to define custom type names, in addition to the built-in ones.

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Diab Jerius <dj@head.cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:

validate.args provides facilities to validate arguments to functions.
It provides a basic set of validation constraints which can be expanded
upon. It understands positional and named arguments.

A rockspec and a complete tarball are available here:

https://bitbucket.org/djerius/validate.args/downloads/validate-args-1.0.1-1.rockspec
https://bitbucket.org/djerius/validate.args/downloads/validate-args-1.0.1.tar.gz