Validation

Runtime validation of data is occurs in Aeria when a contract is set to a route, when a document is being inserted from a builtin function, or with the use of functions from the public API. Validators are helper functions that will return both the inferred type of the given schema and a validation function.

INFO

Input data sent to routes is validated differently through Contracts. If you are looking to validate the query or the payload of a route, you are looking for contracts instead.

validate()

This function validates a object against a schema. It receives an optional third argument containing ValidateOptions. It will return Result<TWhat> case the validation succeeds, and Error<ValidationError> case it fails.

Example:

const personEither = validate(person, {
  properties: {
    name: {
      type: 'string'
    }
  }
})

validator()

This function receives a schema and a optional second argument containing ValidateOptions. It will return a tuple composed by a empty object whose type is inferred from the specified schema, and a function that will receive a object and return the Either<TWhat, ValidationError> derived from it's validation.

Example:

const [Person, personValidator] = validator({
  properties: {
    name: {
     type: 'string'
    }
  }
})

const personEither = personValidator(person)

ValidateOptions

type ValidateOptions = {
  extraneous?: Array<string> | boolean
  throwOnError?: boolean
}

ValidationError

enum ValidationErrorCode {
  InvalidProperties = 'INVALID_PROPERTIES',
  MissingProperties = 'MISSING_PROPERTIES',
  EmptyTarget = 'EMPTY_TARGET',
}

enum PropertyValidationErrorCode {
  Missing = 'MISSING_PROPERTY',
  Extraneous = 'EXTRANEOUS_PROPERTY',
  Unmatching = 'UNMATCHING_PROPERTIES',
  ExtraneousElement = 'EXTRANEOUS_ELEMENT',
  NumericConstraint = 'NUMERIC_CONSTRAINT',
}

enum TraverseError {
  InvalidDocumentId = 'INVALID_DOCUMENT_ID',
  InvalidTempfile = 'INVALID_TEMPFILE',
}

type PropertyValidationError = {
  type: PropertyValidationErrorCode
  index?: number
  details: {
    expected: any
    got: any
  }
}

type ValidationErrorInvalidProperties = {
  code: ValidationErrorCode.InvalidProperties
  errors: Record<string, PropertyValidationError | ValidationError>
}

type ValidationErrorMissingProperties = {
  code: ValidationErrorCode.MissingProperties
  errors: Record<string, { type: 'missing' }>
}

type ValidationErrorEmptyTarget = {
  code: ValidationErrorCode.EmptyTarget
  errors: {}
}

type ValidationError =
  | ValidationErrorInvalidProperties
  | ValidationErrorMissingProperties
  | ValidationErrorEmptyTarget