feature: add `IsDurationString` to validate duration strings
Author: os-moussaoCreated May 29, 2025Updated Apr 1, 2026
Labelstype: featureflag: needs discussion
Description
I would like to have an IsDurationString decorator that validates duration strings ("1 Day", "2 weeks", "7 hrs"...) from the ms package, exactly the ms.StringValue type.
An IsDuration decorator could be considered too, which validates for either a positive integer (milliseconds) or a duration string. (basically, the value is valid to pass to the ms function).
Proposed solution
Implementation of the validator could be either:
- Having
mslibrary as a dependency: try converting the value throughms, if it succeeds then the value is valid. - Implementing an
ms-like parser for validation, without adding a dependency.
Source: typestack/class-validator