validate.js

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// a teensy tinsy module to do parameter validation.  A good candiate for future
// librification.
//
// usage:
//
//   const validate = require('validate.js');
//
//   app.post('/wsapi/foo', validate([ "email", "site" ]), function(req, resp) {
//   });

const
logger = require('./logging.js').logger,
httputils = require('./httputils.js');

module.exports = function (params) {
  return function(req, resp, next) {
    var params_in_request=null;
    if (req.method === "POST") {
      params_in_request = req.body;
    } else {
      params_in_request = req.query;
    }

    try {
      params.forEach(function(k) {
        if (!params_in_request || !params_in_request.hasOwnProperty(k) || typeof params_in_request[k] !== 'string') {
          throw k;
        }
      });
      next();
    } catch(e) {
      logger.error(e.toString());
      return httputils.badRequest(resp, "missing '" + e + "' argument");
    }
  };
};