vtypes-requiredwithout

"Required Without" validator for validate.js

• About
• Installation
• Usage
• Available Options
• License

About

The requiredWithout validator attempts to ensure that the input is be present and not empty if ANY of the other specified fields are NOT present.

The field under validation must be present and not empty only when any of the other specified fields are not present.

Installation

Using npm:

$ npm i --save vtypes-requiredwithout

const validate = require('validate.js');
const requiredWithout = require('vtypes-requiredwithout');
 
// you can then proceed to register the required validators.
validate.validators.requiredWithout = requiredWithout;

Usage

const constraint = {
  attr: {
    requiredWithout: {attributes: ['other', 'related']}
  }
}
 
validate({}, constraint);
// => {attr: ['Attr is required when any of these attributes (other, related) are not present']}
 
validate({other: 'bar', related: 'baz'}, constraint);
// => undefined
 
validate({other: 'bar'}, constraint);
// => {attr: ['Attr is required when any of these attributes (other, related) are not present']}
 
validate({attr: 'foo', other: 'bar'}, constraint);
// => undefined

For more examples, check out the test files in this package's source folder.

Available Options

name	type	default	description
attributes	array		The list of attributes
message	string	is required when any of these attributes (%{attributes}) are not present	Error message
truthy	boolean	false	Checks for truthy values instead of checking only for null and undefined values

License

vtypes-requiredwithout is MIT licensed