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Is it possible to check which combination of req.body properties has been sent by client?

See original GitHub issue

How can we access req.body in validator?

We have a need to inspect the combination of properties (not their values, but properties) client has sent to an API endpoint. So, we don’t want to validate any particular property value but we need to access req.body in validator and then do validation based on Object.keys(req.body).

Is there an elegant way of doing something like that?

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Created 6 years ago
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gustavohenkecommented, Aug 22, 2017

I see. Unfortunately the most terrible way I could think of is to really use something like you mentioned:

req.checkBody('foo').containsItAndAlsoOtherParams(req.body, otherParams);

And, just to generate some hype… This is something I could bake into version 4, soon to be released. See #383 for some preview 😉

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