From dac9aa4298330f431672236d11be378749796245 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xdrm-brackets <xdrm.brackets.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:28:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] implement validator interface for config.parameter

---
 internal/config/parameter.go | 17 +++--------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/internal/config/parameter.go b/internal/config/parameter.go
index 9dc43fa..4037ee6 100644
--- a/internal/config/parameter.go
+++ b/internal/config/parameter.go
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ package config
 
 import "git.xdrm.io/go/aicra/datatype"
 
-func (param *Parameter) checkAndFormat() error {
-
+// Validate implements the validator interface
+func (param *Parameter) Validate(datatypes ...datatype.T) error {
 	// missing description
 	if len(param.Description) < 1 {
 		return ErrMissingParamDesc
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ func (param *Parameter) checkAndFormat() error {
 		return ErrMissingParamType
 	}
 
-	// set optional + type
+	// optional type transform
 	if param.Type[0] == '?' {
 		param.Optional = true
 		param.Type = param.Type[1:]
@@ -22,14 +22,3 @@ func (param *Parameter) checkAndFormat() error {
 
 	return nil
 }
-
-// assigns the first matching data type from the type definition
-func (param *Parameter) assignDataType(types []datatype.T) bool {
-	for _, dtype := range types {
-		param.Validator = dtype.Build(param.Type, types...)
-		if param.Validator != nil {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}