Tera 0.6 has been released on crates.io!

I will let the changelog speaks for itself:

BREAKING CHANGES🔗

• not is now a Tera keyword

Others🔗

• Added #![deny(missing_docs)] to the crate
• Added Tera::one_off to parse and render a single template
• Added not operator in conditions to mean falsiness (equivalent to ! in Rust)
• Remove specific error message when using || or &&
• Improved performances for parsing and rendering (~5-20%)
• Added precision arg to round filter
• Added date filter to format a timestamp to a date(time) string

Nothing too exciting in that release except finally handling not in expressions.

I don't foresee big changes in the API coming soon anymore as we approach feature completeness from my point of view.

The 2 main things still lacking are:

• custom tags: we would need to expose the renderer or the AST somehow
• i18n: no mature i18n libraries in Rust as far as I'm aware

I am not using any of those in my own projects but anyone wanting to discuss them is welcome.

Validation crate🔗

I've been working through the requirements.txt of Proppy to decide what crate to work on in Rust.

The next one will probably be a crate similar to the marshmallow library. Since Serde can handle the serialization/deserialization aspect already, it will focus only on actual validation with an API looking like that:

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, Validate)]
struct SignupData {
    #[validate(email)]
    email: String,
    #[validate(url)]
    site: String,
    #[validate(custom="validate_unique_username")]
    #[validate(length(min=2))]
    username: String,
    #[validate(length(min=8, max=255), custom="validate_common_passwords")]
    password: String,
}

A non-goal of that crate will be error messages as it's always a pain to handle. Errors will be referenced by a keyword and it will be up to the frontend or the backend to write error messages in the correct format for that application.

The first step is figuring out how macros 1.1 work but once it's done, it seems like it will be a fairly small crate.

See you in 2017!