[Feature] Implementing a Utils class directly in the library

[valh1996]

Hi @pblanchardie,

Let me put forward an idea, and I'd like to know what you think. The idea is to offer the most comprehensive library possible, while keeping it light and uncomplicated.

I was wondering if it wouldn't be possible to offer an Utils Class to help us format certain fields, which could of course be totally optional. Optional, so that we retain control over field formatting and know what we're actually generating.

For example only a restricted set of characters is permitted, the "SWIFT characters set", for the following reference elements:

Take a look at the page 16 & 17 of the business specifications :
ig-credit-transfer-v2.0.2-en.pdf

What do you think of the idea of implementing this directly at lib level?

[valh1996]

@pblanchardie Any update pls?

[pblanchardie]

Yes I'll add this in a few days, quite busy at the moment. Thanks for the idea and reference.

Btw, I think that we should also validate the content when generating XML message (or sooner, when building the model) and throw an exception if invalid characters are found.

[pblanchardie]

Hi @valh1996, what was the purpose of allowDiacritics?

[valh1996]

I thought I removed it everywhere, but I forgot here.
Can you remove it pls? ISO20022 doesn't support diacritics