Match is a lightweight library for checking that arguments and other values are of the expected type.

This package was originally the Match module in Meteor. This repo is the code for that package violently ripped out and made to work with normal Node.

Work in progress. Don't expect it to work correctly, or at all.

The docs for the original Meteor version of the module can be found here: http://docs.meteor.com/#match

$ npm install mtr-match

var Match = require("mtr-match");

// Returns true
var valid = Match.test("testing", String); 

Match.check({ name: "Danny Dyer" }, { name: String });
Match.check("Hello, World", String);

Checks that a value matches a pattern. If the value does not match the pattern, throws a Match.Error.

Arguments:

value: The value to check

pattern: The pattern to match value against

Returns true if the value matches the pattern.

Arguments:

value: The value to check

pattern: The pattern to match value against

If the match fails, check throws a Match.Error describing how it failed.

The following patterns can be used as pattern arguments to check and Match.test:

Matches any value.

Matches a primitive of the given type.

Matches a signed 32-bit integer. Doesn't match Infinity, -Infinity, or NaN.

A one-element array matches an array of elements, each of which match pattern. For example, [Number] matches a (possibly empty) array of numbers; [Match.Any] matches any array.

Matches an Object with the given keys, with values matching the given patterns. If any pattern is a Match.Optional, that key does not need to exist in the object. The value may not contain any keys not listed in the pattern. The value must be a plain Object with no special prototype.

Matches an Object with the given keys; the value may also have other keys with arbitrary values.

Matches any plain Object with any keys; equivalent to Match.ObjectIncluding({}).

Matches either undefined or something that matches pattern. If used in an object this matches only if the key is not set as opposed to the value being set to undefined.

// In an object
var pat = { name: Match.Optional(String) };
Match.check({ name: "something" }, pat) // OK
Match.check({}, pat) // OK
Match.check({ name: undefined }, pat) // Throws an exception

// Outside an object
Match.check(undefined, Match.Optional(String)); // OK

Matches any value that matches at least one of the provided patterns.

Matches any element that is an instance of that type.

Calls the function condition with the value as the argument. If condition returns true, this matches. If condition throws a Match.Error or returns false, this fails. If condition throws any other error, that error is thrown from the call to check or Match.test.

Examples:

Match.check(buffer, Match.Where(EJSON.isBinary));

NonEmptyString = Match.Where(function (x) {
  check(x, String);
  return x.length > 0;
});
Match.check(arg, NonEmptyString);

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Copyright (c) 2013 Meteor Development Group and Josh-Ryan Davis

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