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Published inAug 2013
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ISBN-139781782168195
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Simon Holmes
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Simon Holmes started his journey as a web developer in the late 1990s. He built his first website for a project at university and soon saw what the industry had to offer when he promptly sold it! Following university, Simon worked his way through the ranks of design agency life, learning the skills of becoming a full-stack web developer. From server management and database design to building dynamic UIs from Photoshop files, it all fell under Simon's remit. Having witnessed first-hand the terrible JavaScript code so prevalent in the early 2000s, Simon is very much enjoying its resurgence as a powerful, structured language. Simon now works in SaaS, which is very heavy on the JavaScript.
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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...
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Published in: Aug 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782168195

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Simon Holmes

Simon Holmes started his journey as a web developer in the late 1990s. He built his first website for a project at university and soon saw what the industry had to offer when he promptly sold it! Following university, Simon worked his way through the ranks of design agency life, learning the skills of becoming a full-stack web developer. From server management and database design to building dynamic UIs from Photoshop files, it all fell under Simon's remit. Having witnessed first-hand the terrible JavaScript code so prevalent in the early 2000s, Simon is very much enjoying its resurgence as a powerful, structured language. Simon now works in SaaS, which is very heavy on the JavaScript.
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