newsl-validator v1.0.5

newsl-validator

This module is meant to validate some fields of a basic newsletter form. The idea behind this is that to apply a validation criteria to the value, that is a string, of the fields of the form. It is provided a default validation for the this default fields :

• Name, which is validated with a regular expression that accept only characters and discard white space and @#?|!
• Surname , which is validated with a regular expression that accept only characters and discard @#?|!
• Email, which is validated with a regular expression that accept only example@domain.ext format.
• Birth date, which is validated with a regular expression that accept DD/MM/YYYY format.

Installation

To use this module install it with :

npm install newsl-validator

Usage

The module expose a single method called validator which return true or false after validating the field given in input, which is an object with these properties :

var validatorModule = require('newsl-validator');

var nameField = {
	content : 'Alex',
	type : 'NAME'
}

var res = validatorModule.validator(nameField); //true

The property type is used to fire the default validation criteria and can be valued as :

NAME,SURNAME,EMAIL,BIRTH_DATE

If you wanna apply a custom criteria to a default field or a new field you can use the criteria property :

var validatorModule = require('newsl-validator');

surnameField = {
	content : 'Clinton',
	type : 'SURNAME',
	criteria : function(content){
		return /^[^0-9 @#?|!]+$/.test(content) && content.length < 2;
	}
}

var res = validatorModule.validator(nameField); //false