Fixing some long-standing bugs?

[solnic]

@chuckremes

Certain bugs like coercion breaks when reusing schemas, nested arrays with schemas, and inheritance doesn’t work right have been around for a while.

Some of those tickets make reference to dry-validation getting some love in the near future but those comments are about 7 months old.

I know it’s unfortunate but I didn’t have time to maintain 0.x and instead started working on a rewrite for 1.0

@chuckremes

I’m willing to take a stab at fixing some (all?) of these issues since I am running into them too. But I don’t want to do the work if it’s already in progress or there is some secret plan to refactor or rewrite before 1.0 drops.

There’s an official plan to rebuild dry-validation on top of a new project called dry-schema. There’s an open PR with a new implementation of the schema DSL known from dry-validation, and I’ll do my best to wrap it up before the end of the month, and then move onto remaining tasks.

@chuckremes

I’m also a bit worried that the type_specs support isn’t going to stick around particularly since the documentation for it isn’t even linked by the main docs page!

It’s actually the opposite - type specs will become the default API in dry-validation 1.0.0, this is how it works already in dry-schema.

@chuckremes

Advice? Work to fix these bugs or wait for primary authors to reveal their plans & schedule?

Yes, please stay tuned. I’m really sorry it’s taking so long, and that I didn’t manage to work on fixing issues in dry-validation. My time is much more limited than it used to be.

You may want to check out this post where I outlined a rough idea for dry-validation 1.0.0. I hope we can ship it before the end of the year.