Text Validators

Most validators work with text. These checkers check against fomatting rules

TextCheck

class xcheck.TextCheck(name, **kwargs)

TextCheck(name[, min_length, max_length, pattern]) TextCheck validates text or elements with string values

Parameters:

• min_length (integer) – Minimum length of text (default 0)
• max_length (integer or INF) – Maximum length of text (default INF)
• pattern – regex that can be used to check the text (default None)

EmailCheck

class xcheck.EmailCheck(name, **kwargs)

EmailCheck(name [allow_none, allow_blank]) Creates a checker specializing in email addresses

Parameters:

• allow_none (boolean (default True)) – allows NoneType or case-insensitive ‘none’ instead of an email address
• allow_blank (boolean (default False)) – allows an empty or blank string instead of an email address

URLCheck

class xcheck.URLCheck(name, **kwargs)

UrlCheck(name [, allow_none, allow_blank]) Creates a checker specializing in URLs

Parameters:

• allow_none (boolean (default True)) – allows NoneType or case-insensitive ‘none’ instead of a URL
• allow_blank (boolean (default False)) – allows an empty or blank string instead of a URL

This checker uses the :py:mod:urlparse module from the Python distribution.