Toml Schema

This crates aims to provide something similar to JSON schemas for TOML

• Schemas are written in TOML
• All TOML types are currently supported
• References (and recursive schemas) are not yet supported

This crate is very much new and a lot of functionnalities are not fully tested

Syntax

A schema is represented by a table with a type key, its value may be any of

• string : any string that matches the specified regex
• int : a 64 bit signed integer with optional bounds
• float : a 64 bit float with optional bounds
• bool : a boolean
• date : a date
• array : an array of values that all match a specific schema
• table : a TOML table with specific keys
• alternative : an OR operation on sub-patterns

If the parser expects a schema but finds not type key, it will assume the type is table, but if the type is none of the above, parsing will fail

For each type of schema there, are other keys that are either required of optional to give more details about the schema

A default key may also be provided when the schema is the value of a key in a table schema to make that key optional, default will be ignored in other positions

Any extra keys will be ignored (except in table

string

• regex (optional, default = /.*/) : a regular expression that must be found in the string, if you want to match the whole string, use '^' and '$'

int

• min (optional, default = i64::MIN) : the minmimum value allowed
• max (optional, default = i64::MAX) : the maximum value allowed

float

• min (optional, default = f64::NEG_INFINITY) : the minmimum value allowed
• max (optional, default = f64::INFINITY) : the maximum value allowed
• nan_ok (optional, default = false) : if this is true, f64::NAN is accepted

bool

date

array

• child (required) : a schema that all elements of this array must match
• min (optional, default = 0) : the minimum number of elements
• max (optional, default = usize::MAX) : the maximum number of elements

table

• extras (optional, default = []) : an array of tables with a key and schema key that defines regex-based key-value pairs
• extras[n].key (required) : a regular expression that must be found in the key
• extras[n].schema (required) : a schema that must be matched by the value
• min (optional, default = 0) : the minimum number of extra keys
• max (optional, default = 0) : the maximum number of extra keys

All other keys must be schemas, they defined a table key (optional if default is provided in this schema) that must match the schema, a $ is stripped from the beginning of the key if it exists to allow escaping schema keywords, if you want a key that starts with $, start your key with $$ etc...

All keys in the TOML table beeing matched are matched against entries before extra keys, this means that if a key matches an entry and an extra, it will not count towards the number of extra keys, this means that you may want to make extra key regular expressions mutually excusive with the table entries

alternative

• options (required) : an array of schemas, a TOML value matches if any of them match

Examples

• To match any table

type = "table"
extras = [{key = ".*", schema = {type = "anything"}}]

• to match an array of strings

type = "array"
child = {type = "string"}

• you may find a basic schema for Cargo.toml files on github at "test_files/test_schema.toml"

Planned additions

• reference : a link to another schema (or the schema itself)