Code field

Edit source code, templates, or queries with syntax highlighting.

Use field.Code for source text, templates, queries, or configuration that benefits from syntax highlighting. It stores a string; Ridu does not execute, compile, or trust the value.

In the admin

A populated TypeScript Source code field in the Ridu admin.

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

Choose a highlighting language

content/snippets.go

field.Code("source").
  Required().
  Admin(field.Admin{CodeLanguage: "typescript"})

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

Configuration

Constructor or method	What it controls
`field.Code(name)`	Creates a stored string shown in a code editor.
`.Required()`	Rejects missing, null, and empty source.
`.MinLength(n)` / `.MaxLength(n)`	Sets inclusive source-length bounds.
`.Default(value)` / `.DefaultFrom(callback)`	Supplies fixed or request-aware initial source.
`.Localized()`	Stores separate source for each configured content locale.
`.Admin(field.Admin{CodeLanguage: ...})`	Chooses syntax highlighting; it does not parse or execute the source.
`.Validate(callback)` / `.LiveValidate(callback)`	Adds application-specific save or live checks.

Limit length and customize the editor

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

content/templates.go

field.Code("template").MaxLength(50_000).Admin(field.Admin{
  CodeLanguage: "html",
  Description:  "Validated and rendered by the application.",
})

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 required by your application.
Use JSON when machines need structured configuration rather than source text, and Rich text when authors need formatted prose.

See field.Code and field.Admin.CodeLanguage.