Are there ways to validate a form with spec, with user friendly error messages (not developer friendly). I’ve found this: https://github.com/alexanderkiel/phrase but I don’t want to do field by field validation but validate a whole spec that is a map with field dependent error messages.

@talgiat See if this might be closer to what you want https://github.com/bhb/expound

how do I override a generator for something thats deep within some nested maps, without doing s/def on that thing?

am I missing something

You can override by path

But it is tricky to find exactly the right path to use

do you need the same spec to work for both those test cases, or just the first?

clojure
(s/def ::field
  (s/cat :field-name string?
         :field-type #{'Currency 'Text}))
(s/def ::entity
  (s/cat :entity-name keyword?
         :fields (s/+ (s/spec ::field))))
(s/valid? ::entity '(:columns ("Price" Currency) ("Description" Text)))
;;=> true

could replace s/+ with s/* if you don’t require anything after the initial keyword

Just the first

Ok I'll try that thanks