Type safe data validation and sanitization for Express requests (body, query, headers, params) using validata.
See validata for more details on validation functionality.
npm i validata validata-expressimport * as bodyParser from 'body-parser';
import * as express from 'express';
import { Request, Response } from 'express';
import { asNumber, isObject, isString, maybeString } from 'validata';
import validator from 'validator';
import { body, params, Statuses, validate } from 'validata-express';
interface Body {
age: number;
email?: string;
name: string;
}
const bodyCheck = isObject<Body>({
age: asNumber({ min: 0, coerceMax: 120 }),
email: maybeString({ validator: validator.isEmail }),
name: isString(),
});
const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.json());
const router = express.Router();
router.post('/:id', (req: Request, res: Response) => {
// these are now strongly typed
// if age is passed in as a string, it will be converted to a number (by the asNumber() check)
const { age, email, name } = body(req, bodyCheck);
console.log({ age, email, name });
res.status(Statuses.OK).send({ age });
});
app.use(router);
// validate() middleware captures and formats validation issue responses
app.use(validate());
app.listen(8081);import * as bodyParser from 'body-parser';
import * as express from 'express';
import { Request, Response } from 'express';
import { asNumber, isObject, isString, maybeAsNumber } from 'validata';
import { params, query, Statuses, validate } from 'validata-express';
interface Params {
id: number;
}
const paramsCheck = isObject<Params>({
id: asNumber({ min: 0 }),
});
interface Query {
filter: string;
page?: number;
}
const queryCheck = isObject<Query>({
filter: isString(),
page: maybeAsNumber({ min: 0 }),
});
const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.json());
const router = express.Router();
router.post('/:id', (req: Request, res: Response) => {
// these are now strongly typed
const { id } = params(req, paramsCheck);
const { filter, page } = query(req, queryCheck);
res.status(Statuses.OK).send({ id, filter, page });
});
app.use(router);
// validate() middleware captures and formats validation issue responses
app.use(validate());
app.listen(8081);Testing it out...
curl -X POST localhost:8081/foo
# status=400
# {"issues":[{"path":[":","id"],"value":"foo","reason":"no-conversion","info":{"toType":"number"}}]}
curl -X POST localhost:8081/12
# status=400
# {"issues":[{"path":["?","filter"],"reason":"not-defined"}]}
curl -X POST localhost:8081/12?filter=test
# status=200
# {"id":12,"filter":"test"}
curl -X POST localhost:8081/-2?filter=test
# status=400
# {"issues":[{"path":[":","id"],"value":-2,"reason":"min","info":{"min":0}}]}... can be done in pretty much the same way