joitor

Joitor ·

Joitor is a middleware that helps validate body, headers, cookies, params and query in express application using Joi validation.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Features
• Usage
• Options
• Tests
• Errors

Installation

npm install joitor

Features

• body
• cookies
• headers
• query
• params

Usage

const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const http = require('http');
const cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
const validate = require('joitor');
const Joi = require('@hapi/joi');

const app = express();

app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(cookieParser());

const signupValidation = {
  body: {
    email: Joi.string().email().required(),

    password: Joi.string().min(6).max(256).required(),
  },
};

app.post('/signup', validate(signupValidation), (req, res) => res.status(200).send());

const server = http.createServer(app);
server.listen(3000, () => console.log(`Server is running on http://localhost:3000`));

module.exports = app;

Options

By default, Joi don't allow object to contain unknown keys which, they are ignored. If an object can contain unknown keys, pass the following keys: allowUnknown: true. See an example below:

const signupValidation = {
  body: {
    allowUnknown: true,

    email: Joi.string().email().required(),

    password: Joi.string().min(6).max(256).required(),
  },
};

Tests

npm install
npm test

Errors

Custom error status

By default, Joitor returns 400 error status and Bad Request text. If you want to change them you can pass the second argument to the validate function, For example:

// some code

app.post(
  '/signup',
  validate(signupValidation, { status: 409, statusText: 'Conflict' }),
  (req, res) => res.status(200).send(),
);

// some code

Custom handler

Joitor provides his own type of error. With it you can manually handle the error. For example:

// some code

const validate = require('joitor');

// some code

app.use(function (err, req, res, next) {
  if (err instanceof validate.JoitorError) {
    // handler for the error
    return res.status(err.status || 400).json(err);
  }

  res.status(500).send();
});

Examples of errors

{
  status: 400,
  statusText: 'Bad Request',
  errors: {
    body: {
      email: '"email" is required',
      password: '"password" is required'
    }
  }
}