Summary

• 🆕 added validation Modes (fail-fast vs all errors + exception vs return errors)
• 🆕 added primitive strictness control via @Strict
• 🆕 added a integer variant of minimum/maximum validation
• 🆕 added support for @Validation-meta annotation which themselves have attributes (that translate to attributes on @Validation)
• 🆕 added InputExpressions for "safe" pattern matching for unknown user input
• 🆕 added defaults for to(Record) mapping via constant declared in the record called DEFAULT
• 🆕 added AUTO_SKIP Index mode for JsonNodes (default for selector query API)
• 🆕 added length() for JsonString
• 🆕 added Set<NodeType> to JsonObject.Property metadata
• 🆕 added Text#slice and Text#matches with pattern
• 🆕 added Text#trim()
• 🆕 added Text#isSpecialDecimal() (NaN, Infinity, -Infinity)
• 🆕 added fast digit count for int/long in TextBuilder
• 🆎 changed @Validation#pattern to use InputExpression (not RegEx, RegEx now via custom @Validator)
• 🆎 changed JsonPrimitive is now union type of JsonNumber, JsonBoolean and JsonString
• 🆎 revised syntax and implementation for dependent required

Automatic Testing

New features and methods were covered with new test scenarios.

Documentation

Added a spec for the Input Expressions