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# πŸ€” JSON Infer Types

> Infer the types of JSON documents & values, with a large set of formats for strings

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- [πŸš€ Features](#-features)
- [πŸ’» Usage](#-usage)
- [Strings](#strings)
- [String Formats](#string-formats)
- [Date/Time strings](#datetime-strings)
- [URI strings](#uri-strings)
- [Email address strings](#email-address-strings)
- [JWT Strings](#jwt-strings)
- [Credit Card Numbers](#credit-card-numbers)
- [Other formats](#other-formats)
- [Object Formats](#object-formats)
- [Firestore Timestamps](#firestore-timestamps)

## πŸš€ Features

- Written in typescript
- Narrows type of the value when using with Typescript
- Lightweight with only a few third-party dependencies
- Includes a large set of formats for strings
- Dates and times (and timestamps)
- URIs
- Email addresses
- Currencies
- Countries
- Top-Level Domains
- IP Addresses
- Languages
- Phone Numbers
- UUIDs
- Hostnames
- File sizes
- Stringified JSON

## πŸ’» Usage

Install JSON Infer Types

```bash
$ npm install --save @jsonhero/json-infer-types
```

`inferType` takes any JSON value and returns a `JSONValueType` object:

```js
const { inferType } = require("@jsonhero/json-infer-types");

inferType(123); // => { name: "int", value: 123 }
```

The following types are supported:

```js
inferType(null); // => { name: "null", value: null }
inferType(undefined); // => { name: "null", value: null }
inferType(true); // => { name: "bool", value: true }
inferType(123); // => { name: "int", value: 123 }
inferType(123.456); // => { name: "float", value: 123.456 }
inferType("hello world"); // => { name: "string", value: "hello world" }
inferType({ foo: "bar" }); // => { name: "object", value: { foo: "bar" } }
inferType([1, 2, 3]); // => { name: "array", value: [1, 2, 3] }
```

### Strings

JSON Infer Types will also recognize certain string formats and include that information in the result, for example if the string is a `URI`:

```js
inferType("https://www.example.com/foo#bar");
```

Will be

```json
{
"name": "string",
"value": "https://www.example.com/foo#bar",
"format": {
"name": "uri"
}
}
```

Some formats have mutliple variants, like IP Address. `inferType("192.168.0.1")` will be interpreted as an IPV4 address

```json
{
"name": "string",
"value": "192.168.0.1",
"format": {
"name": "ip",
"variant": "v4"
}
}
```

And `inferType("2001:db8:1234::1")` will be interpreted as an IPV6 address

```json
{
"name": "string",
"value": "2001:db8:1234::1",
"format": {
"name": "ip",
"variant": "v6"
}
}
```

## String Formats

### Date/Time strings

JSON Infer Types supports `rfc3339/iso8601` and `rfc2822` string formats

```js
inferType("2019-01-01 00:00:00.000Z");
```

Will result in

```json
{
"name": "string",
"value": "2019-01-01 00:00:00.000Z",
"format": {
"name": "datetime",
"parts": "datetime",
"variant": "rfc3339"
}
}
```

The `parts` field can be either `datetime`, `date` or `time`, depending on the contents of the string.

The following table illustrates the results of different Date/Time strings

| String | Variant | Parts |
| ----------------------------------- | ------- | -------- |
| `"2019-01-01 00:00:00.000Z"` | rfc3339 | datetime |
| `"2019-10-12T14:20:50.52+07:00"` | rfc3339 | datetime |
| `"1983-10-14T13:30Z"` | rfc3339 | datetime |
| `"2016-05-25"` | rfc3339 | date |
| `"+002016-05-25"` | rfc3339 | date |
| `"2016-W21-3"` | rfc3339 | date |
| `"09:24:15.123Z"` | rfc3339 | time |
| `"09:24:15.123Z"` | rfc3339 | time |
| `"09:24:15"` | rfc3339 | time |
| `"Mon, 02 Jan 2017 06:00:00 -0800"` | rfc2822 | datetime |
| `"Mon, 02 Jan 2017 06:00:00 PST"` | rfc2822 | datetime |

Timezone and Calendar extensions for rfc3339 date/times are also detected:

```js
inferType("2022-02-28T11:06:00.092121729+08:00[Asia/Shanghai][u-ca=chinese]");
```

Will result in

```json
{
"name": "string",
"value": "2022-02-28T11:06:00.092121729+08:00[Asia/Shanghai][u-ca=chinese]",
"format": {
"name": "datetime",
"parts": "datetime",
"variant": "rfc3339",
"extensions": ["timezone", "calendar"]
}
}
```

This is useful for knowing when you can use `Temporal.ZonedDateTime` in the new [Temporal](https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/index.html) ECMAScript proposal:

```js
const inferredType = inferType("2022-02-28T11:06:00.092121729+08:00[Asia/Shanghai][u-ca=chinese]");

if (
inferredType.name === "string" &&
inferredType.format.name === "datetime" &&
inferredType.format.variant === "rfc3339" &&
inferredType.format.extensions.includes("timezone")
) {
const zonedDateTime = Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from(inferredType.value);
// Temporal.ZonedDateTime <2022-02-28T11:06:00.092121729+08:00[Asia/Shanghai][u-ca=chinese]>
}
```

JSON Infer Types also supports unix epoch timestamps

```js
inferType("1596597629980");
```

Will result in

```json
{
"name": "string",
"value": "1596597629980",
"format": {
"name": "timestamp",
"variant": "millisecondsSinceEpoch"
}
}
```

Also supported are seconds and nanoseconds since epoch timestamp strings

### URI strings

JSON Infer Types will interpret certain strings to be URIs

```js
inferType("https://www.example.com/foo#bar");
```

Will result in

```json
{
"name": "string",
"value": "https://www.example.com/foo#bar",
"format": {
"name": "uri"
}
}
```

If the URI contains a file extension, the inferred `contentType` will be included in the result. For example `inferType("https://www.example.com/foo.json")` will result in

```json
{
"name": "string",
"value": "https://www.example.com/foo.json",
"format": {
"name": "uri",
"contentType": "application/json"
}
}
```

The mapping of file extension to contentType is done using the [mime-types](https://github.com/jshttp/mime-types) package

### Email address strings

JSON Infer Types supports `rfc5321` and `rfc5321` style email address strings:

```js
inferType("[email protected]");
```

Will result in

```json
{
"name": "string",
"value": "[email protected]",
"format": {
"name": "email",
"variant": "rfc5321"
}
}
```

The following table illustrates the results of different email strings

| String | Variant |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ------- |
| `"[email protected]"` | rfc5321 |
| `"[email protected]"` | rfc5321 |
| `"[email protected]"` | rfc5321 |
| `"Example Name "` | rfc5322 |
| `"Example S. Name "` | rfc5322 |

### JWT Strings

Strings that contain JWT tokens will have the `jwt` format

```javascript
inferType(
"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ.sruoLZNJ59anK67z25t80L62OXDerSiAhWerW-usZLQ",
);
```

Will result in

```json
{
"name": "string",
"value": "...",
"format": {
"name": "jwt"
}
}
```

### Credit Card Numbers

Strings that contain valid credit card numbers will be inferred with the `creditcard` format:

```javascript
inferType("4485428259658366");
```

Will result in

```json
{
"name": "string",
"value": "4485428259658366",
"format": {
"name": "creditcard",
"variant": "visa"
}
}
```

The following table illustrates the results of different credit card number strings

| String | Variant |
| ----------------------- | ---------- |
| `"4485 4282 5965 8366"` | visa |
| `"4485428259658366"` | visa |
| `"375092442988287"` | amex |
| `"6011150635208157"` | discover |
| `"5291160983813402"` | mastercard |
| `"38223928053796"` | dinersclub |

### Other formats

The following table illustrates the rest of the formats JSON Infer Types supports

| Example Strings | Name | Variant |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --------- |
| `"USD"`, `"BTC"` | currency | iso4217 |
| `"United States dollar"`, `"Euro"` | currency | english |
| `"ETH"`, `"LTC"` | currency | crypto |
| `'$'`, `'Β£'`, `'€'`, `'Β₯'` | currency | symbol |
| `"USA"`, `"MMR"` | country | iso3166-3 |
| `"US"`, `"GB"`, `"JP"` | country | iso3166-2 |
| `".com"`, `".co.uk"`, `".biz"` | tld | |
| `"192.168.0.1"`, `"172.16.0.0"` | ip | v4 |
| `"2001:db8:1234::1"` | ip | v6 |
| `"en"`, `"ab"`, `"es"` | language | iso693-1 |
| `"eng"`, `"eus"`, `"zul"` | language | iso693-2 |
| `"Arabic"`, `"Welsh"`, `"Russian"` | language | english |
| `"dansk"`, `"EspaΓ±ol"` | language | native |
| `"+1 (684) 633-5115"`, `"+49 30 83050"` | phoneNumber | e.164 |
| `"4677658f-8865-47db-afb0-908e25246348"` | uuid | v4 |
| `"cfa649f0-650b-11ec-acb3-03462fc79f5d"` | uuid | v1 |
| `"bde4a7b9-5793-5a1f-b378-211205b15898"` | uuid | v5 |
| `"foo.example.com"`, `"localhost"` | hostname | rfc1123 |
| `"exa_mple.com"` | hostname | rfc5890 |
| `"544B"`, `"1.0MB"`, `"377K"`, `"1.87GB"` | filesize | human |
| `'{ "foo": 1 }'` | json | ecma262 |
| `'{ foo: 1, }'` | json | json5 |
| `"/foo/bar"`, `"/foo/-/bar"` | jsonPointer | rfc6901 |
| `"πŸ˜„"`, `"πŸ€ͺπŸ‘¨πŸ½β€πŸš€"`, `"πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘§"` | emoji | |
| `"1.11.0"`, `"0.0.1"`, `"1.0.0-alpha.1"` | semver | |
| `"#ff0000"`, `"#D47DB9"` | color | hex |
| `"rgb(255, 255, 255)"`, `"rgb(255, 255, 255,.5)"` | color | rgb |
| `"hsl(100, 100%, 50%)"`, `"hsl(235, 100%, 50%, .5)"` | color | hsl |

## Object Formats

We also infer the format of certain common object shapes, documented below:

### Firestore Timestamps

[Firestore Timestamps](https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/node/firebase.firestore.Timestamp) are an object with two keys, `_seconds` and `_nanoseconds`:

```json
{
"_seconds": 1642533020,
"_nanoseconds": 932000000
}
```

Inferring this object will result in the following inferred type:

```json
{
"name": "object",
"value": {
"_seconds": 1642533020,
"_nanoseconds": 932000000
},
"format": {
"name": "firestoreTimestamp"
}
}
```

Please feel free to request additional formats by opening a [Github issue](https://github.com/jsonhero-io/json-infer-types/issues)