lambduh-validate

Validates fields of your choice (like S3 keys that you do not want to operate on).

Install

npm i --save lambduh-validate

Usage

var Q = require('q');
var validate = require('lambduh-validate');
 
//your lambda function
exports.handler = function(event, context) {
 
  var result = {
  	srcKey: "file.gif"
  }
 
  validate(result, {
    srcKey: {
      endsWith: '.gif'
    }
  })
  .then(function(result) {
    context.done()
  })
  .fail(function(err) {
    console.log("derp");
    console.log(err);
    context.done(null, err); //soft fail - no need for lambda to retry an invalid request
  });
}

This module takes a requirements object, where the keys are required fields on the passed result object.

The requirements object has a few features that (I hope) are relatively intuitive:

//enforce that `srcKey` exists on `options`
validate(result, {
  srcKey: true
})
 
//enforce that options.srcKey ends with '.gif'
validate(result, {
  srcKey: {
    endsWith: '\\.gif'
  }
})
 
//enforce that options.srcKey does NOT end with '_300.gif'
validate(result, {
  srcKey: {
    endsWithout: '_\\d+\\.gif'
  }
})
 
//enforce that options.srcKey starts with 'events/'
validate(result, {
  srcKey: {
    endsWithout: 'events/'
  }
})

If any requirements are not met, the promise will be rejected.

Some work should be done here to prevent these rejects from retrying in Lambda (Lambda's default reaction to an error is to retry 3 times – the use-case here should not waste those computes unnecessarily). This has not yet been implemented, but could likely be done via a custom error object, or maybe a noRetry flag on the error.