Multistep Validation
I've come across cases where you want to check that things have some minimum amount of structure, and throw if it doesn't, but then conditionally catch any further refinements and handle those differently. For instance, I had an application where we were passing messages that had a defined type
In that case, I had two schemas: the "shape" schema, and the union of expected messages. I threw if it failed the shape parsing, but just logged a warning and skipped processing if the payload had an unexpected
{ type, payload }typeIn that case, I had two schemas: the "shape" schema, and the union of expected messages. I threw if it failed the shape parsing, but just logged a warning and skipped processing if the payload had an unexpected
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