epic: overview of current fixes

[braaar]

Description

The goal of this issue is to have an easy to digest overview over bugfixes and minor tweaks that improve the developer experience with class-validator, to make it easier for maintainers to know what to focus on.

Proposed solution

Review and merge the open PRs that fix bugs

Ready for maintainer review

• fix: assign @NestedValidation error to parent when property is not a class instance #673
• fix: typing #1464
• fix: allow number and boolean values in validation message "$value" tokens #1467
• fix: Add ignore parameter (taken from validatorjs) towards IsAlpha and IsAlphanumeric #1519 and/or fix: add type for locale in @IsAlphanumeric and @IsAlpha decorators #1740
• fix: read nullable option in @IsNotEmptyObject decorator correctly #1555
• fix: Prevent error TS7016 by restoring @types/validator to dependencies #1568
• docs: correct typo in JSDoc for @IsHalfWidth decorator #1575
• feat: trim input in @IsEnum decorator before comparsion #1700
• fix: correct "an url" typo to "a url" #1713
• fix: pass options to validator in @IsDateString decorator #1720
• docs(IsDecimal): use correct docstring for IsDecimal #1502
• fix: correct grammar of error message in @ArrayMaxSize decorator #1752
• fix: Nested validations optimization #1048

Need some work still (mostly just rebase/merge)

• Fix: Update isPostalCode locale codes note #1044
• Fix: update 'no metadata found' error message #1127
• fix: add predicate for isBoolean #1301
• fix: set forbidUnknownValues to true by default #1403
• fix: IsPhoneNumber decorator did not validate correctly #1454
• docs: Clarify forbidUnknownValues #1355

Don't have a PR yet

(comment if you know any other simple issues that should be tracked here!)
I'll try to look through issues to see if I can spot some.

@jotamorais

[braaar]

I think this issue has outlived its usefulness by now

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