A Dead simple object validator

#showdev #dev #javascript #validator

As i said it's simple to the core

Compares the validation object with model and returns its invalid / does not exist.

async function validator(requestObject, validatingObj){

  let paramsError = {
    missingParams: [],
    invalidParams: [],
    message: ''
  }

  function constructMessage(_paramsError){
    let missingParamsMsg = `Missing the following parameters ${_paramsError.missingParams.join()}`;

    let invalidParamsMsg = `The Following parameters are invalid ${_paramsError.invalidParams.join()}`;

    return missingParamsMsg + '. ' + invalidParamsMsg;
  }


  await Object.keys(validatingObj).map(validParam => {
  Object.keys(requestObject).includes(validParam) 
    ? typeof validatingObj[validParam] === typeof requestObject[validParam] ?
       '' : paramsError.invalidParams.push(validParam) : paramsError.missingParams.push(validParam);
  })

  paramsError.message = constructMessage(paramsError);

  return paramsError;
}

Now let's see an example on how to use it.

let requestObject = { username: 'one', mailid: 123123, rides: [] };
let validatingObj = {
  username: "",
  mobile: 0,
  mailid: "",
  age: 0,
  rides: { driverid: 0, carModel: '' }
}

//validating object with the request object
validator(requestObject, validatingObj).then(paramsError => {
  console.info('paramsError',paramsError);
}).catch(err => {
  console.error("\nError",err)
})

Top comments (3)

Andrei Gatej • Apr 18 '19

I like the idea! But what’s the use case for async/await?

And because I’m quite opinionated, I’d get the array of keys requestObject before iterating over validatingObj, instead of recomputing it in every iteration.

Nonetheless, thank you for sharing!