Is func (*Validate) Struct thread-safe ?

[7fELF]

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v9

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Question

I'm using func (*Validate) Struct to validate API requests.
Is that safe to use only one instance of Validate for the whole project considering there may be simultaneous calls to (*Validate) Struct()?

[deankarn]

Hey @7fELF great question

And the answer is yes it is completely thread/goroutine safe and is designed to be used with a single instance. Validator also caches information about your struct and validations, in essence only parsing your validation tags once per struct type, without a single instance you wouldn’t get the advantages of the cache.

[7fELF]

Thanks for the quick answer 😄

[andrascz]

Hey @7fELF great question

And the answer is yes it is completely thread/goroutine safe and is designed to be used with a single instance. Validator also caches information about your struct and validations, in essence only parsing your validation tags once per struct type, without a single instance you wouldn’t get the advantages of the cache.

Could be this represented somewhere in the documentation? There are some functions noted as not thread-safe which is not really an assurance that the other functions are thread-safe.

[deankarn]

PRs welcome @andrascz