Attach moment to ajv instance?

[epoberezkin]

It may be a nicer solution than passing via context - from version 4.6.0 all custom keywords (but "validate") receive the third parameter - schema compilation context that has reference to ajv instance it.self. In this way if the moment is attached to the instance, you can access it from custom keywords.

Or you could make moment a dependency of this package (there are pros and cons of course...)

[cludden]

@epoberezkin love the idea, but the issue I struggled with was the need to have moment available at validation time as opposed to compile time. As far as I can tell, there would be no way to access the ajv instance itself at validation time using the inline method, or am I missing something?

[epoberezkin]

Right, I was thinking about compilation time, where it's it.self :) But it's still available in inline keywords at validation time as self - I will add it to docs. In this case you don't even need the version to be 4.6.0+ - the instance is self from a long time ago, definitely before 2.0.0

[cludden]

did not know about that, thanks for the sharing

[epoberezkin]

you're welcome. I think I may define some instance property where users can put their stuff to be certain it won't clash with any ajv stuff (like res.locals in express)... But in this particular case moment won't be there ever.