Machine-readable zone code generator

This library helps to generate Machine-readable zone codes. It's implemented with Node.js and TypeScript. It provides both CLI tool and programmatic API.

Dependencies:

The project depends on the following technologies and libraries:

• Node.js;
• TypeScript;
• jest and ts-jest;
• ts-node-dev;
• tslint and tslint-config-airbnb.

As you see, there no dependencies but various dev tools.

Installation

(These installation instructions would be valid after publishing, so the package name could change).

Let's consider you use Yarn as your package manager. If you use npm, it would pretty easy for you to translate the commands using this cheatsheet.

To install it as a global binary, use the following command:

$ yarn global add machine-readable-zone

To install it as your project dependency, run:

$ yarn add machine-readable-zone

Usage

If you have the package installed globally, you can use machine-readable-zone as binary name. Otherwise keep in mind that you can use ./node_modules/machine-readable-zone/dist/index.js or yarn start (in development mode) instead of machine-readable-zone.

$ machine-readable-zone --help

  Syntax: machine-readable-zone [options]
  Options:
  --first-name:          [*] First name
  --last-name:           [*] Last name
  --passport-number:     [*] Passport number (9 digits)
  --country-code:        [*] Country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3*)
  --nationality:         [*] Nationality (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3*)
  --gender:              [*] Sex/gender (M/F)
  --valid-until-date:    [*] Date of validity (dd.mm.yyyy)
  --personal-number:         Personal number (14 digits)
  
  --countries            Print all the supported countries with codes
  --version              Print package version
  --help                 Print this help message

Software needs your personal data to generate the code, so please provide it according to the expected formats.

API

The library exports some methods:

• generateMRZ – the function that actually generates the code. It needs a valid data;
• generateMRZFromCommandLineArgs – the function that runs in a command line mode. It parses and validates the data and generates the code;
• validateData – validates the given data according to the schema (ValidationSchema type). If you want to use it, you need to pass a validation schema;
• ParamsValidationSchema – the schema that generateMRZFromCommandLineArgs uses internally. It's a default one and you can pass it to validateData.

Basic programmatic example

You could use generateMRZ function to generate a machine-readable zone code. Please note that this function takes args that have to be already validated.

import { generateMRZ } from 'machine-readable-zone';

const code = generateMRZ({
  user: {
    firstName: 'Ivan',
    lastName: 'Petrov',
    passportNumber: '123456789',
    countryCode: 'RUS',
    nationality: 'RUS',
    birthday: '01.02.1983',
    gender: 'M',
    validUntilDay: '02.03.2028',
    personalNumber: '12345678901234',
  },
});

// Prints P<RUSPETROV<<IVAN<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<\n1234567897RUS8302010M28030211234567890123454
console.log(code);

Using validation shipped with library

A basic validation function is included in library as well. If you're feeling lazy ot just satisfied with library validation results, feel free to use it.

import { validateData } from 'machine-readable-zone';

const validationResult = validateData({
  user: {
    firstName: '',
    lastName: '',
    passportNumber: '123456789',
    countryCode: 'RUS',
    nationality: 'RU',
    birthday: '01/02/1983',
    gender: 'M',
    validUntilDay: '02.03.2028',
    personalNumber: '12345678901234',
  },
});

/* 
 * Prints: 
 * { 
 *   isValid: false,
 *   errors: [
 *     { fieldName: 'firstName', error: 'value should non be empty' },
 *     { fieldName: 'lastName', error: 'value should non be empty' },
 *     { fieldName: 'nationality', error: 'country RU not found. Did you mean RUS?' },
 *     { fieldName: 'birthday', error: 'value 01/02/1983 should be an existing date in dd.mm.yyyy format' },
 *   ],
 * }
 */
console.log(validationResult);

Public interface

The library exposes the following typings:

declare module 'machine-readable-zone' {
  export interface UserInfo {
    firstName: string;
    lastName: string;
    passportNumber: string;
    countryCode: string;
    nationality: string;
    birthday: string;
    gender: string;
    validUntilDay: string;
    personalNumber: string;
  }

  export type CommandLineArgs = string[];

  export interface MRZGeneratorArgs {
    user: UserInfo;
  }

  export interface MRZCommandLineArgs extends MRZGeneratorArgs {
    version: boolean;
    help: boolean;
    countries: boolean;
  }

  export type MRZGenerationResult = string;

  type CommandLineArgsMRZGenerator = (args: CommandLineArgs) => void;
  type MRZGenerator = (args: MRZGeneratorArgs) => MRZGenerationResult;

  interface FieldError {
    fieldName: string;
    error: string;
  }

  interface ArgsValidationResult {
    isValid: boolean;
    errors: FieldError[];
  }

  type SchemaValidator = (args: MRZGeneratorArgs) => ArgsValidationResult;

  type OptionalString = string | null;

  type FieldValidationResult = OptionalString;

  type Validator = (value: any) => FieldValidationResult;

  interface ValidationSchema {
    firstName: Validator;
    lastName: Validator;
    passportNumber: Validator;
    countryCode: Validator;
    nationality: Validator;
    birthday: Validator;
    gender: Validator;
    validUntilDay: Validator;
    personalNumber: Validator;
  }

  export const generateMRZFromCommandLineArgs: CommandLineArgsMRZGenerator;
  export const generateMRZ: MRZGenerator;
  export const validateData: SchemaValidator;
  export const ParamsValidationSchema: ValidationSchema;
}

Building the project

It is recommend to manage Node versions with NVM.

After cloning the project, run

$ yarn

to install the project dependencies. Project has only development dependencies: TypeScript, tslint, jest, etc. As the command succeeded, type

$ yarn build

to build the project locally.

Copyright

Author: Denis Tokarev (@devlato)

License: MIT