Schema for key-value lists?

[m-haug]

I've had a few cases of schemas where I want users to specify a list of key-value pairs with unique keys as a dictionary. Apart from being unique, I don't have any requirements on the keys, but all values should follow a common schema.

However, valkyrie does not support this use case currently, as it seems. Would this be something you would consider?

[tingerrr]

Can you show an example of what you mean? A dictionary schema should already suffice if I understand correctly.

[m-haug]

I want users to specify something like

(
  monday: (location: "home", mood: "good"),
  tuesday: (location: "office", mood: "neutral"),
  "thursday afternoon": (location: "dentist", mood: "anxious"),
)

Essentially, I want to apply a schema to the dictionary's values, regardless of the key. In most cases, the keys are chosen by users, so they can't be known beforehand. The existing dictionary schema requires naming keys explicitly, AFAIK.

So far, I have been working around it with a two schemas in parse, the first ensuring it is a dictionary and converting using dict.pairs() and then the second verifying the value schema against that.

[tingerrr]

Ok, I see. I'm sure we could add this as a new schema type, but in theory the building blocks should already be there by creating your own schema. I've tried around a bit, but I must admit that I couldn't really get it to work correctly at the moment.

We'll see if @jamesrswift responds in the near future regarding the next release in wake of Typst 0.13, valkyrie ought to get a proper manual.