Release History

Contributors

Release 1.5.0 (released October 12, 2020)

  • #64: Fixed URL validator and checker to ensure that protocol is case insensitive.
  • #63: Added a MIME type validator and checker.
  • ENHANCEMENT: Added missing_as_none option to checkers.are_dicts_equivalent().
  • ENHANCEMENT: Added strict_typing option to checkers.are_equivalent().

Release 1.4.2 (released June 20, 2020)

  • #59: Fixed URL and domain validation to fail properly on unsafe characters.

Release 1.4.1 (released January 1, 2020)

  • #54: Fixed the incorrect raising of a TypeError by validators.url().

Release 1.4.0 (released December 21, 2019)

  • #49: Added timedelta() validator and is_timedelta() checker.
  • #50: Added Python 3.8 to the test matrix.

Release 1.3.8 (released December 7, 2019)

  • #43: Modified how __init__.py reads version information.
  • #45: Fixed false-positives and false-negatives in iterable validation.

Release 1.3.7 (released September 7, 2019)

  • #39: Removed artifact print() statement in variable name validator.
  • #40: Fixed bug in checkers.is_type() that would return false negatives when evaluating an abc.ABCMeta object (an Abstract Base Class type-equivalent object) as opposed to an instance that inherits from abc.ABCMeta.

Release 1.3.6 (released August 29, 2019)

  • #37: Added regex matching to variable name validation. Still checks compilation but first must pass regex validation.

Release 1.3.5 (released May 17, 2019)

  • #34: Fixed case sensitivity bugs in URL validator.

Release 1.3.4 (released April 3, 2019)

  • #32: Removed a print statement left over from debugging.

Release 1.3.3 (released March 23, 2019)

  • #28 and #29: Fixed an error where special URLs (localhost) and special IPs (e.g. 10.1.1.1) failed when used with an explicit port or path.

Release 1.3.2 (released February 9, 2019)

  • #25: Fixed an error where an underscore in a host name was not being properly recognized (h/t @mastak) when parsing URLs and domain names.
  • #23: Fixed an error where URL / domain validators and checkers were (incorrectly) failing on valid special names (e.g. localhost, etc.) and special IPs (e.g. 10.1.1.1).
  • #24: Fixed bug where checkers returned false-negatives when the underlying validator raised a SyntaxError.

Release 1.3.1 (released November 30, 2018)

  • #21: Fixed validators.datetime() handling of timezone offsets to conform to ISO-8601.

Release 1.3.0 (released November 12, 2018)

  • #18: Upgraded requests requirement to 2.20.1
  • #17: Added validators.json() with support for JSON Schema validation.
  • #17: Added checkers.is_json() with support for checking against JSON Schema.
  • Added Python 3.7 to the Travis CI Test Matrix.

Release 1.2.0 (released August 4, 2018)

Features Added

  • #14: Added coerce_value argument to validators.date(), validators.datetime(), and validators.time().

Bugs Fixed

  • #11: Removed legacy print statements.
  • #13: checkers.is_time(), checkers.is_date(), and checkers.is_datetime() no longer return false positives

Release 1.1.0 (released April 23, 2018)

Features Added

  • Added validators.domain() and checkers.is_domain() support with unit tests.
  • #8: Added more verbose exceptions while retaining backwards-compatability with standard library exceptions.
  • #6: Made it possible to disable validators by adding the validator name to the VALIDATORS_DISABLED environment variable.
  • #6: Made it possible to disable checkers by adding the checker name to the CHECKERS_DISABLED environment variable.
  • #6: Made it possible to force a validator or checker to run (even if disabled) by passing it a force_run = True keyword argument.
  • #5: Added validators.readable() and checkers.is_readable() support to validate whether a file (path) is readable.
  • #4: Added validators.writeable() and checkers.is_writeable() support to validate whether a file (path) is writeable. Only works on Linux, by design.
  • #9: Added validators.executable() and checkers.is_executable() support to validate whether a file is executable. Only works on Linux, by design.

Bugs Fixed

  • #7: Refactored validators.email() to more-comprehensively validate email addresses in compliance with RFC 5322.

Testing

  • #6: Added unit tests for disabling validators and checkers based on the VALIDATORS_DISABLED and CHECKERS_DISABLED environment variables, with support for the force_run = True override.
  • #7: Added more extensive email address cases to test compliance with RFC 5322.
  • Added unit tests for validators.domain() and checkers.is_domain().
  • #5: Added unit tests for validators.readable() and checkers.is_readable() that work on the Linux platform. Missing unit tests on Windows.
  • #4: Added unit tests for validators.writeable() and checkers.is_writeable().
  • #9: Added unit tests for validators.executable() and checkers.is_executable().

Documentation

  • Added CHANGES.rst.
  • #7: Added additional detail to validators.email() documentation.
  • #8: Added detailed exception / error handling documentation.
  • #8: Updated validator error documentation.
  • #6: Added documentation on disabling validators and checkers.
  • #5: Added documentation for validators.readable() and checkers.is_readable().
  • #4: Added documentation for validators.writeable() and checkers.is_writeable().
  • #9: Added documentation for validators.executable() and checkers.is_executable().