Error Handling #

• Consolidated all error types into a single ValidationException class
• Improved error messages with consistent format that includes path, value, type, and message

Standalone Validator API #

• Exposed Validator class for direct use without requiring Field or Schema
• Added methods to create and use validators for individual values
• Added support for chaining validators with optional(), list(), and map() methods

API Improvements #

• Enhanced type safety throughout the validation pipeline
• Improved error context and path tracking for nested validations
• Removed the need to finalize fields with .field() when creating a schema

• Refactored conversion logic to improve type casting errors
• Introduced new exception types for when conversion fails due to type mismatches

RegExp fields #

• Added pattern fields with the Field.pattern() method to convert JSON strings to RegExp objects
• Added support for anchored patterns with the full flag to automatically add ^ and $ if not present

Map fields #

• Added support for map fields with the map() method on FieldBuilder
• Added Field.map() factory method for creating map fields
• Added map() method to Schema class for processing maps of JSON objects
• Renamed many() to list() for consistency with map() field types

Proper casting #

• Improved type casting for all field types to allow for more flexible JSON parsing

• Initial version.