input validator

Previously part of utilities now it's it's own library. The purpose? To validate user input according to x or y rule and show any validation errors to the end user. This class uses utilities for the validation rules.

Instalation

You can either download (from index.js or /libs/) and include the script to your file: <script src="path/to/script"></script> manually or you can use ecmascript 6's require("input-validator")

In this repo there's also some CSS for the error handling bit that you can use by downloading the CSS and including it on your code ( <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css"> ). Alternatively you can also make your own error handling / css thingy.

The error handling function adds a has-error to the parent element of input and creates a span element for the error message.

Usage

After including the file on your project all you need to do is validateInputs(validationObject, handleErrors);, where is an object (or array of objects in case of multiple field validation) with the element to validate and respective rule(s) (further explanation below) and handleErrors is a boolean that defaults to true that indicates whether the error messages are to be handled by this library or not.

validateInputs

This function validates DOM fields or simple values. Some of the rules also require a rule value, for instance when you using maxvalue you have to specify what's the max value. Every rule has it's own error message, however you can send your own custom error message (showed below). This function accepts either and object or an array of objects. This object contains the field / value to be validated, the rule, a custom message (optional), ruleValue (depends on the which rule we're applying) and optional (which is in itself optional)

Validation object composition:

{
  field: DOM element or value,
  rule: validation rule (string),
  message: a custom message you want for validation errors (string),
  ruleValue: some rules require a rulevalue (see below) 
  optional: for the times when a value is optional but must meet certain criteria (boolean)
}

Currently supports the following rules:

• required
• number
• even
• maxvalue
• minvalue
• positive
• maxlen
• minlen
• email
• equal
• phone

Examples

There are several ways for you to validate what you need. You can:

• validate only one field with one validation rule
• validate only one field with multiple validation rule
• validate multiple fields with one validation rule each
• validate multiple fields with multiple validation rule each
• validate multiple fields with one validation rule for some fields and multiple for others You can also have a specific custom message for each validation rule

One field, one rule

validateInputs({
  input: value,
  rule: "required"
});

One field, multiple rules

validateInputs({
  input: value, 
  rule: ["required", "number"]
});

Multiple fields, one rule each

validateInputs([
  {input: value, rule: "required"},
  {input: value2, rule: "email"},
  {input: value3, rule: "even"}
]);

Multiple fields, multiple rules

validateInputs([
  {input: value, rule: ["required", "even"]},
  {input: value2, rule: ["email", "positive"]}
]);

Multiple fields, mixed rules

validateInputs([
  {input: value, rule: "required"},
  {input: value2, rule: ["email", "positive"]}
]);

Multiple rules with custom message each

validateInputs([
  {input: value, rule: "required"},
  {input: value2, rule: [
    {rule: "email", message: "Custom message"},
    {rule: "positive", message: "Custom message 2"} 
  ]}
]);

Rules with rule value

validateInputs([
  {input: value, rule: "maxvalue", ruleValue: 5},
  {input: value2, rule: "required", message: "something"},
  {input: value3, rule: "maxvalue", ruleValue: 5, message: "another something"},
  {input: value4, rule: [
    {rule: "minlen", message: "Custom message", ruleValue: 5},
    {rule: "positive", message: "Custom message 2"},
    {rule: "required"}
  ]}
]);

required

Checks if the value has something

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "required"});

number

Checks if the value is a number

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "number"});

even

Checks if the value is a number and if it's an even number

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "even"});

maxvalue

Checks if the value is lower than the given rule value

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "maxvalue", ruleValue: 5});

minvalue

Checks if the value is higher than the given rule value

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "minvalue", ruleValue: 5});

positive

Checks if the value is a number and if it's positive

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "maxvalue", ruleValue: 5});

equal

Checks if the value equals the value(s) from the rule value

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "equal", ruleValue: 5});

or

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "equal", ruleValue: [5, 2, 3]});

maxlen

Checks if the value length is lower than the given rule value

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "maxlen", ruleValue: 5});

minlen

Checks if the value length is higher than the given rule value

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "minlen", ruleValue: 5});

email

Checks if the value is a valid email

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "email"});

phone

Checks if the value is a valid phone number, according to the cirteria set by the rule value

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "phone", ruleValue: ["### ### ###", "#########"]});

or

validateInputs({input: value, rule: "phone", ruleValue: "#########"});