@adonisjs/validator

Adonis Validator ⚔️

This repo is the validation provider for Adonisjs framework. It is built on top of http://indicative.adonisjs.com.

What's in the box?

This repo contains following providers.

• Validator
• Data sanitizor
• Support for raw validations
• Validate routes via app Validators

Setup

Install the package from npm

adonis install @adonisjs/validator

Next make sure to read instructions.md file.

Node/OS Target

This repo/branch is supposed to run fine on all major OS platforms and targets Node.js >=7.0

Development

Great! If you are planning to contribute to the framework, make sure to adhere to following conventions, since a consistent code-base is always joy to work with.

Run the following command to see list of available npm scripts.

npm run

Tests & Linting

• Lint your code using standardJs. Run npm run lint command to check if there are any linting errors.
• Make sure you write tests for all the changes/bug fixes.
• Also you can write regression tests, which shows that something is failing but doesn't breaks the build. Which is actually a nice way to show that something fails. Regression tests are written using test.failing() method.
• Make sure all the tests are passing on travis and appveyor.

General Practices

Since Es6 is in, you should strive to use latest features. For example:

• Use Spread over arguments keyword.
• Never use bind or call. After calling these methods, we cannot guarantee the scope of any methods and in AdonisJs codebase we do not override the methods scope.
• Make sure to write proper docblock.

Issues & PR

It is always helpful if we try to follow certain practices when creating issues or PR's, since it will save everyone's time.

• Always try creating regression tests when you find a bug (if possible).
• Share some context on what you are trying to do, with enough code to reproduce the issue.
• For general questions, please create a forum thread.
• When creating a PR for a feature, make sure to create a parallel PR for docs too.

Regression Tests

Regression tests are tests, which shows how a piece of code fails under certain circumstance, but the beauty is even after the failure, the test suite will never fail. Actually is a nice way to notify about bugs, but making sure everything is green.

The regression tests are created using

test.failing('2 + 2 is always 4, but add method returns 6', (assert) => {
 assert.true(add(2, 2), 4)
})

Now since the add method has a bug, it will return 6 instead of 4. But the build will pass.