input-validator-node

validation library for nodejs, inspired by laravel.

Usage no npm install needed!

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README

This project copy from node-input-validator package. I'm so sorry this, because node-input-validator package use async/await not suitable my project.

Validation Library

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Validation library for node.js

Node Input Validator is a validation library for node.js. You can also extend library to add custom rules.

Note: For use case of any rule, please check test cases, If you have any doubt or confusion with document rule use and behaviour.

Installation

npm install --save input-validator-node

Usage

Simple Example

const v = require('input-validator-node');

let validator = new v({name:''}, {name:'required|minLength:5'});

validator.check().then(function (matched) {
    console.log(matched);
    console.log(validator.errors);
});

Example usage in express application

const v = require('input-validator-node');

app.post('login', function (req, res) {

    let validator = new v( req.body, {
        email:'required|email',
        password: 'required'
    });

    validator.check().then(function (matched) {
        if (!matched) {
            res.status(422).send(validator.errors);
        }
    });

})

const v = require('input-validator-node');

router.post('login', async function (ctx) {

    let validator = new v( ctx.request.body, {
        email:'required|email',
        password: 'required'
        });

    let matched = validator.check();

    if (!matched) {
        ctx.status = 422;
        ctx.body = validator.errors;
        return;
    }

})

Objects Validation

let v = new Validator({
        product: {id:'1',name:'',price:'', active:'yes'}
    },
    {
        'product': 'required|object',
        'product.id': 'required|integer',
        'product.name': 'required',
        'product.price': 'required|integer',
        'product.active': 'required|integer'
    });

let matched = v.check();

Array Validation

let v = new Validator({
        roles: ['admin', 'manager', 'member']
    },
    {
        'roles': 'required|array',
        'roles.*': 'required|string'
    });

let matched = v.check();

let v = new Validator({
        plan: [
            {price:'25',title:'OK'},
            {price:'',title:''},
            {price:'30'},
            {price:'',title:'Title'}
        ]
    },
    {
        'plan': 'required|array',
        'plan.*.price': 'required|integer',
        'plan.*.title': 'required'
    });
let matched = v.check();

Array of rules

Usefull in case of using colon (:) / pipe delimiters in rules like dateFormat / regex.

 let v = Validator.make(
        { uid: 'abcdefghi' },
        {
            uid: ['required', ['lengthBetween', '5', '8'], 'alpha']
        });
let matched = v.check();

Extending

Placeholder in messages, :attribute will be replaced with field name, :value with field value and :arg0, :arg1 ...n with arguments passed to rule.

Add/Update rule based messages

Validator.messages({
    required: 'The :attribute field must not be empty.',
    email: 'E-mail must be a valid email address.',
    even: 'The value of the field must be even number.',
    status: 'Invalid status'
});

Add custom messages

//Note: Default language is English (en).

Validator.customMessages({
    'username.required': 'When username attribute required rule failed.',
    username: 'Default message for username attribute.'
});

Add/Update rules default message in another language

Currenlty this package only support english, But you can easliy add messages in another language.

Validator.messages({
    required: ':attribute ਫੀਲਡ ਖਾਲੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੋਣਾ ਚਾਹੀਦਾ.',
}, 'pb');

Set default language

const validator = require('input-validator-node');
validator.setLang('pb');

Using Custom Attribute Names

const validator = require('input-validator-node');

let v = new validator( ctx.request.body, {
            phone:'required',
            dob: 'required'
        });

v.setAttributeNames({
    phone: 'phone number',
    dob: 'Date of Birth'
});

In error messages you will get "phone number" instead of phone. For Example: in case required rule failed, Error message will be: The phone number field is mandatory.

Add your own custom validation rules

Validator.extend('even', function (field, value) {

    if( (parseInt(value) % 2) == 0 ){
        return true;
    }

    return false;

});

Validator.extend('status', function (field, value, args) {

    if( args.indexOf(value) >= 0 ){
        return true;
    }

    return false;

});

Example of using other fileds in rule

Validator.extend('sumOfFields', function (field, value, args) {

    if (args.length !== 2) {
        throw "Invalid seed for rule sumOfFields";
    }

    // use this.inputs to get another attributes

    const anotherValue = Number(this.inputs[args[0]]);

    const eq = Number(args[1]);

    if ((Number(value) + anotherValue) !== eq) {
        return false;
    }

    return true;

});

 let v = new Validator(
    { num1: '50', num2: '50' }, 
    { num1: 'sumOfFields:num2,100|required' }
    );

let matched = v.check();

assert.equal(matched, true);

Some example of using database in rules

// use this rules as unique:seed
// unique:<Mongoose Model>,<Field Name>,<ID to Ignore, This is optional>

const Validator = require('input-validator-node');
const mongoose = require('mongoose');

Validator.extend('unique', async function (field, value, args) {

// default field is email in this example
    let filed = args[1] || 'email';

    let condition = {};

    condition[filed] = value;

    // add ignore condition
    if (args[2]) {
        condition['_id'] = { $ne: mongoose.Types.ObjectId(args[2]) };
    }

    let emailExist = await mongoose.model(args[0]).findOne(condition).select(field);

    // email already exists
    if (emailExist) {
        return false;
    }

    return true;

});

// example usage of upper extended rule

new Validator({
    email: 'required|email|unique:User,email'
}, inputs);

// in case to ignore specific id

new Validator({
    email: 'required|email|unique:User,email,5c2f29e9cefa7718a54f8ff1'
}, inputs);

For Koa2 Attach koa middleware

const validator = require('input-validator-node');

// keep this under your error handler
app.use(validator.koa());

Then in controller

// if validation fails, this will auto abort request with status code 422 and errors in body
ctx.validate({
    name:'required|maxLength:50', 
    username:'required|maxLength:15',
    email:'required|email',
    password:'required'
});

// validation passes
// do some code

With custom inputs

// if validation fails, this will auto abort request with status code 422 and errors in body
ctx.validate({
    name:'required|maxLength:50', 
    username:'required|maxLength:15',
    email:'required|email',
    password:'required'
}, ctx.request.body);

// validation passes
// do some code

With custom inputs and custom messages

// if validation fails, this will auto abort request with status code 422 and errors in body
ctx.validate({
    name:'required|maxLength:50', 
    username:'required|maxLength:15',
    email:'required|email',
    password:'required'
}, ctx.request.body, {email: 'E-mail is required'});

// validation passes
// do some code

In case you wants control over validator, Then use

// if validation fails, this will auto abort request with status code 422 and errors in body
const v = ctx.validator({
    name:'required|maxLength:50', 
    username:'required|maxLength:15',
    email:'required|email',
    password:'required'
});

// in case validation fails
if (v.fails()) {
    ctx.status = 422;
    ctx.body = v.errors;
    return;
}

// do some code

This method (ctx.validator(rules,inputs={}, messages={})) also support same options as like ctx.validate

Rules

You can check test cases for rules usage/examples.

required
The field under validation cannot be left blank.

// required rule validation fails
let v = new Validator({name:''}, {name:'required'});

requiredIf:field,value
The field under validation cannot be left blank, if provided seed value equals to provided value seed.

// requiredIf rule validation fails, becoz email cannot be left blank if age is 16
let v = new Validator({email:'', age:'16'}, {email:'requiredIf:age,16'});

requiredNotIf:field,value
The field under validation may left blank, if provided seed value equals to provided value seed.

// requiredNotIf rule validation fails, becoz transport must be present in case age is not 16
let v = new Validator({transport:'', age:'15'}, {transport:'requiredNotIf:age,16'});

requiredWith:field
requiredWith:field,field,field
The field under validation may required in case provided seed present.

// requiredWith rule validation fails, becoz email must in case age present.
let v = new Validator({email:'', age:'17'}, {email:'requiredWith:age'});

requiredWithout:field
requiredWithout:field,field,field
The field under validation may left blank in case provided seed present.

// requiredWithout rule validation fails, becoz email is must in case phone,pan not provided.
let v = new Validator({email:'', username:''}, {email:'requiredWithout:phone,pan', username:'requiredWithout:email'});

accepted
The field under validation must be yes, on, 1, or true.

after:YYYY-MM-DD
The field under validation must be date after provided seed.

let v = new Validator({joining:''}, {joining:'required|after:2018-02-10'});

alpha
The field under validation must be entirely alphabetic characters.

alphaDash
The field under validation may have alpha-numeric characters, as well as dashes and underscores.

alphaNumeric
The field under validation only contains letters and numbers.

array
The field under validation must be an array.

arrayUnique
Added in: v3.5
The field under validation must be an array and must contains unique values. No need to use array rule. This rule will take care of that.

arrayUniqueObjects:attributes
Added in: v3.5
The field under validation must be an array and should have objects with unique attributes as per seed. No need to use array rule. This rule will take care of that.

ascii
The field under validation only contains ascii characters.

base64
The field under validation must be valid base64 encoded string.

between:min,max
The field under validation must be betwwen min and max seed. This will work with number valus as well as with arrays using array count.

boolean
boolean:custom The field under validation must be boolean (true, false, 'true', 'false', 0, 1, '0', '1') or in custom seed.

contains:value
The field under validation must contains provided seeds.

let v = new Validator({bio:'My profile is: example.com'}, {bio:'required|contains:profile'});

creditCard
The field under validation must be valid credit card string.

date
The field under validation must be a valid date (YYYY-MM-DD).

dateAfterToday:number,unit
The field under validation must be a valid date after provided seed.

let v = new Validator({expiry:'2019-02-28'}, {expiry:'required|dateAfterToday:2,days'});

see moment docs(https://momentjs.com/docs/#/manipulating/add/) for supported units.

dateBeforeToday:number,unit
The field under validation must be a valid date before provided seed.

let v = new Validator({valid:'2019-02-28'}, {valid:'required|dateBeforeToday:2,months'});

dateFormat:format
The field under validation must match the given date format.

Note: use array of rules style declaration to deal with colon (:) in time formats.

let v = new Validator({dob:''}, {dob:'required|dateFormat:YYYY-MM-DD'});

Check https://momentjs.com/docs/ for supported formats

dateiso
Added in: v3.6
The field under validation must be a valid iso date.

datetime
Added in: v3.6
The field under validation must match YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss format.

decimal
The field under validation must be a decimal value.

digits:length
The field under validation must be numeric and must have an exact length.

digitsBetween:min,max
The field under validation must have a length between provided min and max values.

let v = new Validator({phone:''}, {age:'required|digitsBetween:10,13'});

domain
The field under validation must a qualified domain.

email
The field under validation must be formatted as an e-mail address.

equals
The field under validation must be equal to given value.

gt:another_field
Added in: v3.4
The field under validation must be greater then another field value. This rule is for Numbers comparision.

gte:another_field
Added in: v3.4
The field under validation must be greater or equals to another field value. This rule is for Numbers comparision.

hash:algo
The field under validation must be a valid hash as per provided seed.

 let v = new Validator({
        id: 'fd1baf48377a9f644f9af89abbee29f6'
     },
     {
         id: 'required|hash:md5'
     });

Supported algorithms: md4, md5, sha1, sha256, sha384, sha512, ripemd128, ripemd160, tiger128, tiger160, tiger192, crc32, crc32b.

hex
The field under validation must be valid hex.

hexColor
The field under validation must be valid hex color code.

in:a,b...n
The field under validation must exist in the given list of values.

let v = new Validator({status:''}, {status:'required|in:active,inactive,blocked'});

integer
The field under validation must be an integer.

ip
The field under validation must be an IP address.

iso8601
The field under validation must be valid Iso8601 date.

json The field under validation must be a valid JSON string.

length:max
length:max,min
Added in: v3.5
The field under validation must be less then or equals to max seed provided in rule. In case of min,max seed, field under validation must be less or equals to max seed and less then min seed. Can only be used with strings|arrays or any other object that supports length (str.length) property.

latLong The field under validation must be a valid latitude-longitude coordinate.

lengthBetween:min,max
The field under validation value length must be between provided values.

let v = new Validator({age:''}, {age:'required|between:17,30'});

lt:another_field
Added in: v3.4
The field under validation must be less then another field value. This rule is for Numbers comparision.

lte:another_field
Added in: v3.4
The field under validation must be less or equals to another field value. This rule is for Numbers comparision.

macAddress
The field under validation should be a valid Mac Address.

let v = new Validator({ id: '00:14:22:01:23:45' }, { id: 'required|macAddress' });
;

max
The field under validation must be less than given value.

let v = new Validator({age:''}, {age:'required|max:35'});

maxLength
The length of field under validation should be less than given value.

let v = new Validator({username:''}, {username:'required|max:10'});

mime
The file under validation must have a MIME type corresponding to one of the listed extensions.

min The field under validation must be greater than given value.

let v = new Validator({age:''}, {age:'required|min:21'});

minLength
The length of field under validation should be greater than given value.

let v = new Validator({username:''}, {username:'required|max:10|min:5'});

mongoId
The field under validation should be a valid MongoDB ID.

let v = new Validator({id:''}, {id:'required|mongoId'});

notContains:value
The field under validation may not contains provided seeds.

notIn
The field under validation must not exist in the given list of values.

let v = new Validator({status:''}, {status:'required|notIn:inactive,blocked'});

nullable
The field under validation is required only is not left empty.

numeric
The field under validation must be numeric.

phoneNumber
The field under validation must be a valid phone number.

regex
The field under validation must match the given regular expression.

Note: Currently regex rules break on using colon (:) or pipe delimiters. Use array of rules style declaration instead of string.

same
The given field must match the field under validation.

let v = new Validator({password:''}, {password:'required|same:confirm_password'});

size:max size:max,min
The file field under validation must have a file size matching the given maximum value or should be between size range. Supported unit sufix: b,kb/k,mb/m,gb/g.

// in below case, image file size should be under 4kb limit
let v = new Validator({image:''}, {image:'required|size:4kb'});

// in below case, image file size should be between 1kb - 4kb
let v = new Validator({image:''}, {image:'required|size:4kb,1kb'});

let v = new Validator({video:''}, {video:'required|size:10mb'});

sometimes
The field under validation is required if present.

string
The field under validation must be string.

url
The field under validation must be a valid URL.

Post Rules
There is set of rules which can be used to validate constraints of whole input, rather than validity of singular fields.

const v = require('input-validator-node');

let validator = new v({name:''}, {'*': 'any:name,surname'});

validator.check().then(function (matched) {
    console.log(matched);
    console.log(validator.errors);
});

Post validator errors are returned in the * key. There is also possibility to add custom function as validator with help of addPostRule method. Function will be called in context of validator object with input as parameter.

const v = require('input-validator-node');

let v = new Validator({username: 'arnold', password: 'arnold123'}, {});

v.addPostRule(async function(input) {

    if (input.password.indexOf(input.username) >= 0) {
        this.validator.addError('password', 'custom', 'Password cannot contain username'); 
    }

});

any
Any of the fields must be present in input.

all
All of the fields must be present in input.

Typescript Support

Partial Support.