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---
title: Type Attributes
layout: gem-single
name: dry-types
---
Types themselves have optional attributes you can apply to get further functionality.
### Append `.optional` to a _Type_ to allow `nil`
By default, nil values raise an error:
``` ruby
Types::Strict::String[nil]
# => raises Dry::Types::ConstraintError
```
Add `.optional` and `nil` values become valid:
```ruby
optional_string = Types::Strict::String.optional
optional_string[nil]
# => nil
optional_string['something']
# => "something"
optional_string[123]
# raises Dry::Types::ConstraintError
```
`Types::String.optional` is just syntactic sugar for `Types::Strict::Nil | Types::Strict::String`.
### Handle optional values using Monads
See [Maybe](docs::extensions/maybe) extension for another approach to handling optional values by returning a [_Monad_](/gems/dry-monads/) object.
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