DataAnnotation validator

This package contains a set of helper functions that validate a data model against a schema generated using .NET's System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.

Usage

Installing:

npm install --save data-annotations-schema-validator

Use it:

var schemaValidator = require('data-annotations-schema-validator');

Functions

validate(model: object, schema: object) => object

Validates model against schema, and returns the result as an object.

The generated object contains, for each property, the type errors typeErrors (for example, when a field has a string and should have a number) and the content errors contentErrors (value range, required, etc).

The returned object also contains a field, valid, which tells the validity of the tested model.

If the property is an object, a propertyErrors object is added, which follows the same structure. For arrays, an itemErrors array is added. For each item in the model's array, an item in the resulting array is added, which follows the structure above.

Example output:

{
    valid: boolean,
    modelState: {
        <property>: {
            typeErrors: array,
            contentErrors: array,
            valid: boolean
        },
        (...)
    }
}

validateAsync(model: object, schemaName: string, cb: function (err, result)) => void

Asynchronous version of validate. This version asynchronously loads the schema from the server and then validates model.

loadSchema(schemaName: string, cb: function (err, schema)) => void

Asynchonously loads the schema with the specified name from the server, parses it to find more schemas (which are then loaded into cache), and then returns the schema in the callback, cb.