Conditional validation on array/object validation

I send multiple nested forms as an array of objects in my application. here’s an example: [ {"name": "A", "Pre": "", "_destroy": 0}, {"name": "B", "Pre": "", "_destroy": 1} ]

I use the suggested way to check all the values in the array and it works fine, but I wanted to know that is there any way to only check the objects that their “_destroy” is equal to 1? I tried some ways that were suggested for conditional validation but it didn’t work for this case, maybe I did it the wrong way.

[gustavohenke]

At the moment, it isn’t straightforward, but you can write something like this:

check('array.*.name')
	.if((value, { req, path, location }) => {
		// Check the sibling .destroy property, using lodash's _.get
		// https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.11#get
		return _.get(req[location], path.replace('name', 'destroy')) === 1;
	})
	.notEmpty()

[gustavohenke]

I mean that that parent thing doesn’t exist yet, it’s just a proposal. You should try the other example.