Code field

Use field.Code for source text, templates, queries, or configuration where syntax-aware authoring is useful. It stores a string; Ridu does not execute, compile, or trust the value.

In the admin

Language changes highlighting only; stored source remains an unexecuted string.

Smallest working example

field.Code("source", field.Language("typescript"), field.Required())

Language is an editor hint. It does not validate that the source parses and does not transform the returned string.

Options and constraints

Code accepts string length constraints, a string default, localization, indexing/uniqueness, and the common admin options. Only Code accepts field.Language; applying it to Text or Textarea is a configuration error reported by ridu.Resolve.

field.Code(
  "template",
  field.Language("html"),
  field.MaxLength(50_000),
  field.Description("Rendered by the application after its own validation."),
)

Queries use the string operators. Localization can be useful for locale-specific templates, but be explicit about fallback behavior when a missing translation would change execution or presentation.

Security and troubleshooting

• Treat code values as untrusted content. Never pass them to eval, a shell, a template engine, or a database without an application-owned parser, allowlist, and resource bounds.
• Syntax highlighting is not syntax validation. Add a hook or plugin validator when valid source is a business requirement.
• Use JSON when machines need structured configuration rather than source text, and Rich text when authors need formatted prose.

See field.Code and field.Language.