Documentation ¶
Overview ¶
Package semver provides the ability to work with Semantic Versions (http://semver.org) in Go.
Specifically it provides the ability to:
- Parse semantic versions
- Sort semantic versions
- Check if a semantic version fits within a set of constraints
- Optionally work with a `v` prefix
Parsing Semantic Versions ¶
To parse a semantic version use the `NewVersion` function. For example,
v, err := semver.NewVersion("1.2.3-beta.1+build345")
If there is an error the version wasn't parseable. The version object has methods to get the parts of the version, compare it to other versions, convert the version back into a string, and get the original string. For more details please see the documentation at https://godoc.org/github.com/Masterminds/semver.
Sorting Semantic Versions ¶
A set of versions can be sorted using the `sort` package from the standard library. For example,
raw := []string{"1.2.3", "1.0", "1.3", "2", "0.4.2",} vs := make([]*semver.Version, len(raw)) for i, r := range raw { v, err := semver.NewVersion(r) if err != nil { t.Errorf("Error parsing version: %s", err) } vs[i] = v } sort.Sort(semver.Collection(vs))
Checking Version Constraints ¶
Checking a version against version constraints is one of the most featureful parts of the package.
c, err := semver.NewConstraint(">= 1.2.3") if err != nil { // Handle constraint not being parseable. } v, err := semver.NewVersion("1.3") if err != nil { // Handle version not being parseable. } // Check if the version meets the constraints. The a variable will be true. a := c.Check(v)
Basic Comparisons ¶
There are two elements to the comparisons. First, a comparison string is a list of comma separated and comparisons. These are then separated by || separated or comparisons. For example, `">= 1.2, < 3.0.0 || >= 4.2.3"` is looking for a comparison that's greater than or equal to 1.2 and less than 3.0.0 or is greater than or equal to 4.2.3.
The basic comparisons are:
- `=`: equal (aliased to no operator)
- `!=`: not equal
- `>`: greater than
- `<`: less than
- `>=`: greater than or equal to
- `<=`: less than or equal to
Hyphen Range Comparisons ¶
There are multiple methods to handle ranges and the first is hyphens ranges. These look like:
- `1.2 - 1.4.5` which is equivalent to `>= 1.2, <= 1.4.5`
- `2.3.4 - 4.5` which is equivalent to `>= 2.3.4, <= 4.5`
Wildcards In Comparisons ¶
The `x`, `X`, and `*` characters can be used as a wildcard character. This works for all comparison operators. When used on the `=` operator it falls back to the pack level comparison (see tilde below). For example,
- `1.2.x` is equivalent to `>= 1.2.0, < 1.3.0`
- `>= 1.2.x` is equivalent to `>= 1.2.0`
- `<= 2.x` is equivalent to `<= 3`
- `*` is equivalent to `>= 0.0.0`
Tilde Range Comparisons (Patch)
The tilde (`~`) comparison operator is for patch level ranges when a minor version is specified and major level changes when the minor number is missing. For example,
- `~1.2.3` is equivalent to `>= 1.2.3, < 1.3.0`
- `~1` is equivalent to `>= 1, < 2`
- `~2.3` is equivalent to `>= 2.3, < 2.4`
- `~1.2.x` is equivalent to `>= 1.2.0, < 1.3.0`
- `~1.x` is equivalent to `>= 1, < 2`
Caret Range Comparisons (Major)
The caret (`^`) comparison operator is for major level changes. This is useful when comparisons of API versions as a major change is API breaking. For example,
- `^1.2.3` is equivalent to `>= 1.2.3, < 2.0.0`
- `^1.2.x` is equivalent to `>= 1.2.0, < 2.0.0`
- `^2.3` is equivalent to `>= 2.3, < 3`
- `^2.x` is equivalent to `>= 2.0.0, < 3`
Index ¶
- Constants
- Variables
- type Collection
- type Constraints
- type Version
- func (v *Version) Compare(o *Version) int
- func (v *Version) Equal(o *Version) bool
- func (v *Version) GreaterThan(o *Version) bool
- func (v Version) IncMajor() Version
- func (v Version) IncMinor() Version
- func (v Version) IncPatch() Version
- func (v *Version) LessThan(o *Version) bool
- func (v *Version) Major() int64
- func (v *Version) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error)
- func (v *Version) Metadata() string
- func (v *Version) Minor() int64
- func (v *Version) Original() string
- func (v *Version) Patch() int64
- func (v *Version) Prerelease() string
- func (v Version) SetMetadata(metadata string) (Version, error)
- func (v Version) SetPrerelease(prerelease string) (Version, error)
- func (v *Version) String() string
- func (v *Version) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error
Constants ¶
const SemVerRegex string = `v?([0-9]+)(\.[0-9]+)?(\.[0-9]+)?` +
`(-([0-9A-Za-z\-]+(\.[0-9A-Za-z\-]+)*))?` +
`(\+([0-9A-Za-z\-]+(\.[0-9A-Za-z\-]+)*))?`
SemVerRegex is the regular expression used to parse a semantic version.
const ValidPrerelease string = `^([0-9A-Za-z\-]+(\.[0-9A-Za-z\-]+)*)$`
ValidPrerelease is the regular expression which validates both prerelease and metadata values.
Variables ¶
var ( // ErrInvalidSemVer is returned a version is found to be invalid when // being parsed. ErrInvalidSemVer = errors.New("Invalid Semantic Version") // ErrInvalidMetadata is returned when the metadata is an invalid format ErrInvalidMetadata = errors.New("Invalid Metadata string") // ErrInvalidPrerelease is returned when the pre-release is an invalid format ErrInvalidPrerelease = errors.New("Invalid Prerelease string") )
Functions ¶
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Types ¶
type Collection ¶
type Collection []*Version
Collection is a collection of Version instances and implements the sort interface. See the sort package for more details. https://golang.org/pkg/sort/
func (Collection) Len ¶
func (c Collection) Len() int
Len returns the length of a collection. The number of Version instances on the slice.
func (Collection) Less ¶
func (c Collection) Less(i, j int) bool
Less is needed for the sort interface to compare two Version objects on the slice. If checks if one is less than the other.
func (Collection) Swap ¶
func (c Collection) Swap(i, j int)
Swap is needed for the sort interface to replace the Version objects at two different positions in the slice.
type Constraints ¶
type Constraints struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
Constraints is one or more constraint that a semantic version can be checked against.
func NewConstraint ¶
func NewConstraint(c string) (*Constraints, error)
NewConstraint returns a Constraints instance that a Version instance can be checked against. If there is a parse error it will be returned.
func (Constraints) Check ¶
func (cs Constraints) Check(v *Version) bool
Check tests if a version satisfies the constraints.
type Version ¶
type Version struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
Version represents a single semantic version.
func NewVersion ¶
NewVersion parses a given version and returns an instance of Version or an error if unable to parse the version.
func (*Version) Compare ¶
Compare compares this version to another one. It returns -1, 0, or 1 if the version smaller, equal, or larger than the other version.
Versions are compared by X.Y.Z. Build metadata is ignored. Prerelease is lower than the version without a prerelease.
func (*Version) Equal ¶
Equal tests if two versions are equal to each other. Note, versions can be equal with different metadata since metadata is not considered part of the comparable version.
func (*Version) GreaterThan ¶
GreaterThan tests if one version is greater than another one.
func (Version) IncMajor ¶
IncMajor produces the next major version. Sets patch to 0. Sets minor to 0. Increments major number. Unsets metadata. Unsets prerelease status.
func (Version) IncMinor ¶
IncMinor produces the next minor version. Sets patch to 0. Increments minor number. Unsets metadata. Unsets prerelease status.
func (Version) IncPatch ¶
IncPatch produces the next patch version. If the current version does not have prerelease/metadata information, it unsets metadata and prerelease values, increments patch number. If the current version has any of prerelease or metadata information, it unsets both values and keeps curent patch value
func (*Version) MarshalJSON ¶
MarshalJSON implements JSON.Marshaler interface.
func (*Version) Prerelease ¶
Prerelease returns the pre-release version.
func (Version) SetMetadata ¶
SetMetadata defines metadata value. Value must not include the required 'plus' prefix.
func (Version) SetPrerelease ¶
SetPrerelease defines the prerelease value. Value must not include the required 'hypen' prefix.
func (*Version) String ¶
String converts a Version object to a string. Note, if the original version contained a leading v this version will not. See the Original() method to retrieve the original value. Semantic Versions don't contain a leading v per the spec. Instead it's optional on implementation.
func (*Version) UnmarshalJSON ¶
UnmarshalJSON implements JSON.Unmarshaler interface.