Type Coercion & Encoding Verbs

Type conversion (string, number, boolean, date), Base64 encoding, URL encoding, and hashing.

Type Coercion

Verb	Syntax	Description	Try It
coerceString	`%coerceString @path`	Convert to string	Try
coerceNumber	`%coerceNumber @path`	Convert to number	Try
coerceInteger	`%coerceInteger @path`	Convert to integer	Try
coerceBoolean	`%coerceBoolean @path`	Convert to boolean	Try
coerceDate	`%coerceDate @path`	Convert to date	Try
tryCoerce	`%tryCoerce @path`	Auto-detect and convert type	Try

Encoding & Hashing

Verb	Syntax	Description	Try It
base64Encode	`%base64Encode @path`	Encode to Base64	Try
base64Decode	`%base64Decode @path`	Decode from Base64	Try
urlEncode	`%urlEncode @path`	URL-encode string	Try
sha256	`%sha256 @path`	SHA-256 hash	Try
md5	`%md5 @path`	MD5 hash	Try
base64urlEncode	`%base64urlEncode @path`	URL-safe Base64, no padding	Try
base64urlDecode	`%base64urlDecode @path`	Decode URL-safe Base64	Try
hmac	`%hmac @message "key" ["alg"]`	Keyed hash, hex output (default sha256)	Try
parseUrl	`%parseUrl @url`	Split a URL into parts (query keys sorted)	Try
buildUrl	`%buildUrl @parts`	Inverse of parseUrl (query keys sorted)	Try
parseQuery	`%parseQuery @qs`	Parse a query string into an object (keys sorted)	Try
buildQuery	`%buildQuery @object`	Serialize an object to a query string (keys sorted)	Try
stableStringify	`%stableStringify @value`	Canonical JSON with object keys sorted recursively	Try
canonicalHash	`%canonicalHash @value`	SHA-256 of the canonical form (order-independent)	Try

Examples

Type coercion examples

; Type conversion
year_str = %coerceString @vehicle.year               ; 2024 -> "2024"
amount = %coerceNumber @premium_text                 ; "1234.50" -> 1234.50
active = %coerceBoolean @is_active                   ; "true" -> true

; Encoding
encoded = %base64Encode @document.content            ; Binary -> Base64
url = %urlEncode @search.query                       ; Spaces -> %20