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strong-params

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Rails-style implementation of strong parameters. It supports Express, Koa and also can be used as standalone. The middleware adds the parameters object to the Express request (or ctx.parameters for Koa context) which returns an object, built from query string, request body and route params data. The returned object has some useful methods allows for data requiring and filtering.

Notice

The implementation of strong parameters was previously forked from koa-strong-params but now has it's own implementation. Along with this change only, except and merge methods have been dropped from the API as they do not exist in Rails Strong Parameters API.

Installation

Install the npm package.

npm install strong-params --save

Attach the middleware.

Express
var express = require('express')
var params = require('strong-params')
app.use(params.expressMiddleware())
Koa
var koa = require('koa')
var params = require('strong-params')
var app = new koa()
app.use(params.koaMiddleware())

Usage

Get strong parameters

Express
app.use(function (req, res, next) {
  var params = req.parameters
})
Koa
app.use(function (ctx, next) {
  var params = ctx.parameters
})
Standalone
var Parameters = require('strong-params').Parameters
var params = Parameters({
  id: '13',
  name: 'Bob',
  age: '13',
  hobbies: ['skydiving', 'football', 'photographing'],
  address: {
    country: 'US',
    street: '261 West'
  },
  contacts: [
    {
      type: 'e-mail',
      value: '[email protected]'
    }, {
      type: 'mobile',
      value: '+123987456'
    }
  ]
})

Methods

// All available params
params.all()
// -> { id: '13', name: 'Bob', age: '13', hobbies: ['skydiving', 'football', 'photographing'], address: { country: 'US', street: '261 West' }, contacts: [{ type: 'e-mail', value: '[email protected]' }, { type: 'mobile', value: '+123987456' }] }

// Only selected params
params.permit('name', 'age').value()
// -> { name: 'Bob', age: '13' }

params.permit('id', 'name', {hobbies: []}).value()
// -> { id: '13', name: 'Bob', hobbies: ['skydiving', 'football', 'photographing'] }

params.permit('id', 'name', {contacts: []}).value()
// -> { id: '13', name: 'Bob', contacts: [] }

params.permit('id', 'name', {contacts: ['type', 'value']}).value()
// -> { id: '13', name: 'Bob', contacts: [{ type: 'e-mail', value: '[email protected]' }, { type: 'mobile', value: '+123987456' }] }

// All params of a sub-object
params.require('address').all()
// -> { country: 'US', street: '261 West' }

// All params of a sub-object
params.require('contacts').permit('type', 'value').value()
// -> [{ type: 'e-mail', value: '[email protected]' }, { type: 'mobile', value: '+123987456' }]

Errors

// ParameterMissingError
try {
  params.require('missingKey')
} catch(err) {
  err instanceof ParameterMissingError // -> true
  err instanceof Error // -> true
}

Look Rails Strong Parameters specification for more information.

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