Lanka Validator

Lanka Validator is a lightweight, framework-agnostic utility library built to handle Sri Lankan data formats. Whether you are building an e-commerce checkout, a KYC pipeline, or a simple contact form, this library helps keep your input data accurate and standardized.

Key Features

• Smart NIC Decoding: Supports both old (9-digit + suffix) and new (12-digit) formats.
• Information Extraction: Retrieves birthday, gender, NIC type, and voter flag for old NIC values.
• Mobile Normalization: Standardizes valid Sri Lankan mobile numbers to international +94 format.
• Carrier Detection: Identifies providers (Dialog, Mobitel, Hutch, Airtel) from prefixes.
• Vehicle Plate Validation: Supports modern province-based and old vehicle number formats.
• Fully Typed: First-class TypeScript support for a safer developer experience.
• Ultra Lightweight: No runtime dependencies.

Quick Start

Installation

npm install lanka-validator

Basic Usage

import { NIC, Mobile, Vehicle } from 'lanka-validator';

// NIC decoding
const nicInfo = NIC.decode('951234567V');
// { isValid: true, type: 'Old', gender: 'Male', birthday: Date(...), isVoter: true }

// Mobile formatting and provider detection
const formatted = Mobile.format('0771234567'); // "+94771234567"
const network = Mobile.getProvider('0771234567'); // "Dialog"

// Vehicle validation
const car = Vehicle.validate('WP CAB-1234');
// { isValid: true, province: 'WP', number: '1234' }

Detailed API Reference

1. National Identity Card (NIC)

The NIC module handles date decoding, leap-year validation, and the gender offset rule (+500 day component).

| Method | Input | Returns | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | decode(nic) | string | NICDecodeResult |

Supported formats:

• Old: 951234567V / 951234567X
• New: 199512304567 (12 digits)

Errors:

• Invalid NIC Format
• Invalid NIC day component
• Invalid NIC date component

2. Mobile Numbers

Use these methods to clean user input and identify carriers.

| Method | Input | Returns | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | format(phone) | string | Normalized +947XXXXXXXX | | getProvider(phone) | string | Dialog | Mobitel | Hutch | Airtel |

Carrier prefix map:

• 070, 071 -> Mobitel
• 076, 077 -> Dialog
• 072, 078 -> Hutch
• 075 -> Airtel

Errors:

• Invalid mobile number format
• Invalid Sri Lankan mobile number
• Unsupported mobile prefix

3. Vehicle Numbers

Validates plate format and extracts province and number.

Example formats:

• WP CAB-1234 (modern province-based)
• KA-1234 (old format)

Returns:

• Valid modern: { isValid: true, province: 'WP', number: '1234' }
• Valid old: { isValid: true, province: '', number: '1234' }
• Invalid: { isValid: false, province: '', number: '' }

Real-World Example

Sign-up Form Validation (React/Node.js)

import { NIC, Mobile } from 'lanka-validator';

const handleSubmit = (data: { phone: string; nic: string }) => {
  try {
    const validMobile = Mobile.format(data.phone);
    const nicDetails = NIC.decode(data.nic);

    // Proceed with sanitized data
    console.log('Verified User:', {
      phone: validMobile,
      dob: nicDetails.birthday,
    });
  } catch (error) {
    alert('Please check your Sri Lankan identity details!');
  }
};

Exported Types

import type {
  NICDecodeResult,
  NICGender,
  NICType,
  MobileProvider,
  VehicleValidationResult,
} from 'lanka-validator';

Development and Testing

This project uses Vitest for test coverage of validation logic.

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build package
npm run build

# Run tests
npm test

# Watch mode
npm run test:watch

License

Distributed under the MIT License.

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