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Sanitizing arrays loses data except first item

See original GitHub issue

Version: express-validator 6.2.0

Send POST data:

{
title: "test",
genre: ["aaa", "bbb", "ccc"]
}

After sanitizeBody("*").escape() POST data changed to:

{
title: "test",
genre: "aaa"
}

And array data of genre lost!

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

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fedecicommented, Dec 28, 2020

@favph Sure I will, however to require a minimum array length you can use isArray({ min: 1 })

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JustinChowcommented, Jul 4, 2020

Seeing the same issue in v6.14.5.

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