README.md

Guardian

A Guard Clause is a validation of information used to avoid errors during execution, and enables to "fail fast".
This package provides:

• Function decorator guard clauses (All function arguments will be checked)
• General use case guard clauses
• Ability to create custom guard clauses

Install

pip install guardian-python

Usage

from guardian import guard


@guard.none()
def buy_item(username: str, user_repository: UserRepository, product_repository: ProductRepository):
    guard.not_alphabetic(username)
    ...

Supported Guard Clauses

• numbers: zero, not_negative, not_positive, in_range, out_of_range
• strings: matches_regex, not_matches_regex, whitespace, uppercase, lowercase, not_numeric, not_alphabetic, not_alphanumeric, empty_or_whitespace
• dates: in_date_range, out_of_date_range, before, after
• general: none, contains, equals, empty (list, str, tuple...)

Create a Custom Guard

custom_guard.py:

from guardian import Guard

dead = Guard(name="dead", predicate=lambda v: v.HP + v.armor <= 0, description="Don't Perform if dead")
alive = Guard(name="alive", predicate=lambda v: v.HP + v.armor > 0, description="Don't Perform if alive")

main.py:

import custom_guard

@custom_guard.dead()
def shoot(enemy: Enemy):
  ...

@custom_guard.alive()
def revive(player: Player):
  ... 

Additional Parameters

• property: extracts property from objects
• key: get value at key
• transformer: function to extract wanted data to guard against

@guard.none(property="name")
def login(user: User):
  # if user.name is None an exception will be thrown

@guard.none(key="name")
def login(user: dict):
  # if user["name"] is None an exception will be thrown

@guard.none(transformer=lambda v: v.name)
def login(user: User):
  # if user.name is None an exception will be thrown

More Code Examples:

guard.matches_regex(".*el$")
def greet_user(username: str):
  # username = "Daniel" will throw an exception
  # username = "John" won't throw an exception
  ...

# Alternatively you can use:
def greet_user(username: str):
  guard.matches_regex(username, ".*el$")
  ...

@guard.out_of_range([0, 255])
def rgb_to_hsv(r: int, g: int, b: int) -> Tuple[int, int, int]:
  ...

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