Understanding validation errors
When we have been creating, editing, and saving data in our project, we have been using a callback function containing two parameters: an error object and the returned data object. So far we have generally been ignoring the error object and just been saving the data, for example:
user.save(function (err, user) {
if(err){
console.log(err)
} else { ...It is in the err object that we receive the Mongoose validation errors. The error object will contain a top-level message and name, and a collection of specific errors. Each of these errors give an individual message, name, path, and type object. A typical validation failure looks like the following when sent to the console:
{ message: 'Validation failed',
name: 'ValidationError',
errors:
{ email:
{ message: 'Validator "required" failed for path email',
name: 'ValidatorError',
path: 'email',
type: 'required' },
name:
{ message: 'Validator "required" failed...
