cannot validate complex object (v0.9.1)

[engenb]

per the documentation:
"Validating complex objects is also supported. To configure validation rules for objects, use dot notation in the name of the attribute, e.g 'address.street'."

with this approach, validation is failing. I think it's because of the code below from validate
allAttrs = _.extend({}, validatedAttrs, model.attributes, attrs),

this effectively combines the validatedAttrs hash with the model attributes which results in allAttrs looking something like this (pretending we're validating the street of a person's address):
person : { attributes : { address : { attributes : { street : '1234' } } }, address.street : undefined }

later on, when this is validated, flatten will determine the attributes hash already has a property address.street and will not properly flatten out the address object. If I remove validatedAttrs from the aforementioned _.extend(...) the issue is resolved, however I don't know if this will negatively impact anything else during validation.

I think if the structure was flattened first in a smart way using the validatedAttrs and THEN validatedAttrs was extended onto the resulting flattened structure to detect missing attrs, we'll be in good shape.

[Dakuan]

we are also bumping into this

[captDaylight]

Thirded, this is an issue for us too

[captDaylight]

here is the question I posted on stack http://jsfiddle.net/captDaylight/rkz1dxfw/2/

[kevynb]

I have the same problem too

[calweb]

ran into this same issue today, trying to validate complex object. Is this issue still being looked at?

In our case, we're using preValidate, in which we're trying to validate a complext object.

[chiefGui]

Fixed by #260.