TinyDuration

A small javascript package to parse and serialize ISO-8601 durations. This package does only 2 things:

1. It parses a duration string to an object
   • (e.g. P1DT12H to { days: 1, hours: 12 })
2. The reverse, i.e. serialize an object to a string.

This lib has 0 dependencies.

Installation

• NPM: npm install --save tinyduration
• Yarn: yarn add tinyduration

Usage

import { parse, serialize } from 'tinyduration';

// Basic parsing
const durationObj = parse('P1Y2M3DT4H5M6S');
assert(durationObj, {
    years: 1,
    months: 2,
    days: 3,
    hours: 4,
    minutes: 5,
    seconds: 6
});

// Serialization
assert(serialize(durationObj), 'P1Y2M3DT4H5M6S');

Development

This library is written in TypeScript. During publication of the package, the code is transpiled to javascript and put into the dist folder.

The tests can be found the src folder under *.test.ts, testing is done using Jest

Additional commands you'll need for development:

• yarn test to run all tests
• yarn lint to run the linter
• yarn prettify to auto-fix the indenting issues
• yarn ci to run coverage and linting

API

Type: Duration

Property	Type	Description
negative	boolean or undefined	Duration is positive if undefined
years	number or undefined
months	number or undefined
weeks	number or undefined
days	number or undefined
hours	number or undefined
minutes	number or undefined
seconds	number or undefined

Function: parse(string): Duration

parse accepts a string and returns a Duration object.

No attempt is made to change lower units into higher ones, e.g. to change 120 minutes into 2 hours.

Throws InvalidDurationError if an invalid duration string is supplied.

import { parse } from 'tinyduraion';

const duration = parse('P1W');
assert(duration, { weeks: 1 })

try {
    parse('invalid-duration');
} catch (e) {
    assert(e.message === 'Invalid duration')
}

Function: serialize(Duration): string

serialize accepts a Duration object and returns a serialized duration according to ISO-8601.

If the duration is empty (i.e. all values are 0), PT0S is returned.

import * as Duration from 'tinyduraion';

const durationStr = Duration.serialize({ weeks: 1 });
assert(durationStr, 'P1W')

const durationStr = Duration.serialize({});
assert(durationStr, 'PT0S')

License

MIT