gin/examples/struct-lvl-validations/README.md
Suhas Karanth 6d913fc343 fix(binding): Expose validator engine used by the default Validator (#1277)
* fix(binding): Expose validator engine used by the default Validator

- Add func ValidatorEngine for returning the underlying validator engine used
  in the default StructValidator implementation.
- Remove the function RegisterValidation from the StructValidator interface
  which made it immpossible to use a StructValidator implementation without the
  validator.v8 library.
- Update and rename test for registering validation
  Test{RegisterValidation => ValidatorEngine}.
- Update readme and example for registering custom validation.
- Add example for registering struct level validation.
- Add documentation for the following binding funcs/types:
  - Binding interface
  - StructValidator interface
  - Validator instance
  - Binding implementations
  - Default func

* fix(binding): Move validator engine getter inside interface

* docs: rm date cmd from custom validation demo
2018-03-29 14:33:07 +08:00

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Struct level validations

Validations can also be registered at the struct level when field level validations don't make much sense. This can also be used to solve cross-field validation elegantly. Additionally, it can be combined with tag validations. Struct Level validations run after the structs tag validations.

Example requests

# Validation errors are generated for struct tags as well as at the struct level
$ curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8085/user \
	-H 'content-type: application/json' \
	-d '{}' | jq
{
  "error": "Key: 'User.Email' Error:Field validation for 'Email' failed on the 'required' tag\nKey: 'User.FirstName' Error:Field validation for 'FirstName' failed on the 'fnameorlname' tag\nKey: 'User.LastName' Error:Field validation for 'LastName' failed on the 'fnameorlname' tag",
  "message": "User validation failed!"
}

# Validation fails at the struct level because neither first name nor last name are present
$ curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8085/user \
    -H 'content-type: application/json' \
	-d '{"email": "george@vandaley.com"}' | jq
{
  "error": "Key: 'User.FirstName' Error:Field validation for 'FirstName' failed on the 'fnameorlname' tag\nKey: 'User.LastName' Error:Field validation for 'LastName' failed on the 'fnameorlname' tag",
  "message": "User validation failed!"
}

# No validation errors when either first name or last name is present
$ curl -X POST http://localhost:8085/user \
    -H 'content-type: application/json' \
	-d '{"fname": "George", "email": "george@vandaley.com"}'
{"message":"User validation successful."}

$ curl -X POST http://localhost:8085/user \
    -H 'content-type: application/json' \
	-d '{"lname": "Contanza", "email": "george@vandaley.com"}'
{"message":"User validation successful."}

$ curl -X POST http://localhost:8085/user \
    -H 'content-type: application/json' \
	-d '{"fname": "George", "lname": "Costanza", "email": "george@vandaley.com"}'
{"message":"User validation successful."}