IbanNet 1.2.0

IbanNet

IbanNet is a .NET library providing functionality to validate and parse an International Bank Account Number also known as IBAN.

Supported regions

Usage

Parse

The simplest way to use this library is to use the static Parse method:

Iban iban = Iban.Parse("NL91ABNA0417164300");

When parsing fails, an IbanFormatException is thrown, which contains a property Result which indicates the type of error that occurred.

TryParse

To parse an IBAN without throwing an exception use TryParse.

Iban iban;
bool success = Iban.TryParse("NL91ABNA0417164300", out iban);

The only downside is there is no way to retrieve the type of validation error that occurred if parsing fails.

IbanValidator

Lastly, you can use the validator directly:

IIbanValidator validator = new IbanValidator();
IbanValidationResult validationResult = validator.Validate("NL91ABNA041716430");

The benefit of using the validator is that it implements the IIbanValidator interface. This allows for mocking and using a DI container. It is recommended that when you do, that you cache the validator or register it as a singleton, since the initialization - although not much - does introduce some overhead when initializing the IBAN validation rules.

Iban type

Iban.Parse and Iban.TryParse return a type Iban. The Iban type is entirely optional, and if you use the validator directly you won't ever need to use this type.

However, this type does provide some useful features:

Format IBAN

To convert an Iban type to a string, call the ToString() method with either of 2 formats:

Equals

Whether or not you parsed NL91 ABNA 0417 1643 00 or NL91ABNA0417164300, these IBAN are considered equal.

Mocking the static Parse/TryParse methods

If you use the static methods because you would like to use the Iban type, you can still mock the underlying validator for testing purposes by setting the static property Iban.Validator.

Installation

Install IbanNet via NuGet.

Visual Studio / .NET Framework

Install-Package IbanNet

.NET CLI

dotnet add package IbanNet

Future enhancements

• Add support for conversion from BBAN to IBAN via 3rd party API's.

Supported .NET targets

• .NET 4.5.2
• .NET 4.6.2
• .NET Standard 1.2

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2017
• .NET Core 2.0 SDK

Contributions

Since this is a new package I'm still working on CI, refactoring and perhaps some restructuring. PR's are welcome but keep this in mind, as it may cause me to decline PR's if upcoming changes may conflict too much with PR's.

Contributors

• skwas (author/maintainer)