fjl-input-filter

Input filter validation functions - These allows you to create input and input-filter objects that can be used (by included utility functions) to easily validate a body of input fields quickly and easily (see usage examples further below).

Sections in Readme:

• Basic idea
• Requirements
• Getting Started
• Docs
• Motivation
• Development
• Supported Platforms
• License
• Resources
• Change log

Basic idea:

• Validators - Functions that validate a given input and return a validation result.
• Filters - Functions that take a value and give you a 'possibly' transformed value.
• Inputs - Objects that contain rules used for validation (breakOnFailure, a list of validators, a list of filters etc.)
• InputFilters - Collection of input objects that can be validated together as a whole. (see usage example(s) below):

Requirements:

• Javascript Ecmascript 5+.

Supported Platforms:

Browsers

• IE9+, and all other modern day browsers.

NodeJs

• 8+

Getting Started:

In NodeJs:

Using es2015 modules:

import {...} from 'fjl-input-filter';

Using CommonJs modules:

const {...} = require('fjl-input-filter');

In Browser:

See desired export type below:

• './dist/amd/' - Asynchronous module format.
• './dist/cjs/' - CommonJs module format.
• './dist/umd/' - Universal module definition format.
• './dist/iife/' - Immediately Invoked Function Execution - (exports fjlInputFilter as a global).
• './dist/es6-module/' - Ecmascript 6 module format.

Docs

JSDocs are here (https://functional-jslib.github.io/fjl-input-filter/) [https://functional-jslib.github.io/fjl-input-filter/].

Docs in readme aren't fully fleshed out yet (see jsdocs, usage examples, and/or tests instead).

Input methods

noValidationRequired, validateInput, validateIOInput, runValidators,
runIOValidators, runFilters, runIOFilters, toInput,
toInputValidationResult, Input

InputFilter methods

validateInputFilter, validateIOInputFilter, validateIOInputWithName,
toInputFilter, toInputFilterResult, InputFilter

In-line summary docs follow:

Api:

validateInputFilter(inputFilter, incomingData)

validateIOInputFilter(inputFilter, incomingData, ioErrorHandler)

validateInput(inputObj, value)

validateIOInput(inputObj, value, ioErrorHandler)

toInputFilter(inputsObj, breakOnFailure {Boolean}, out = {})

toInputFilterResult(resultObj, out = {})

toInputValidationResult(resultObj)

toInput(inputOptions, out = {})

Constructors

Input(options)

Methods

• validate(data) : InputValidationResult
• validateIO(data) : Promise.<InputValidationResult>

InputFilter(inputsObj, breakOnFailure {Boolean})

Methods

• validate(data) : InputFilterResult
• validateIO(data) : Promise.<InputFilterResult>

Virtual Types

InputValidationResult

InputFilterResult

External Virtual Types

See: fjl-validator repo/module

ValidationResult

ValidatorOptions

Development:

• For commands see './package.json' scripts.

Dir structure

• Everything is in './src'.
• Distribution is in './dist'.
• Docs are in './docs'.

Testing

Using jest (see './package.json' scripts).

License:

BSD 3 Clause - Included in sources.

Resources:

• Zend/InputFilter: https://docs.zendframework.com/zend-inputfilter/intro/
• fjl-validator: https://github.com/functional-jslib/fjl-validator
• fjl-filter (WIP): https://github.com/functional-jslib/fjl-filter

Change log

1.2.5

• Dependencies and dev-dependencies updated to latest.
• Tests updated to reflect updated dev-dependencies (jest complained about nested 'describe' blocks and nested 'test' blocks (primarily issue had to do with async and non-async tests)).

0.18.0

Breaking changes

• Removed uncurried methods (methods ending with $) (use curried methods instead). Removed:

• errorIfNotTypeOnTarget$ - ('fjl' provides this now)

• errorIfNotTypeOnTarget - ("")

• defineEnumProps$

• defineProps$

• Renamed auxillary methods:

  • _descriptorForSettable becomes createTypedDescriptor.
  • _makeDescriptorEnumerable becomes toEnumerableDescriptor.
  • _targetDescriptorTuple becomes toTargetDescriptorTuple.

Other changes:

• Normalized API (removed un-curried methods from exports and non-api specific (un-required) methods).
• Updated build process (using babel7 now).
• Replaced mocha and chai with jest.
• Changed license from "MIT" to "BSD3".
• Version and build tag links to top of readme file.
• Et. al.