zulip/web/src/schema.js

/*

These runtime schema validators are defensive and
should always succeed, so we don't necessarily want
to translate these.  These are very similar to server
side validators in zerver/lib/validator.py.

*/

export function check_string(var_name, val) {
    if (typeof val !== "string") {
        return var_name + " is not a string";
    }
    return undefined;
}

export function check_record(var_name, val, fields) {
    if (typeof val !== "object") {
        return var_name + " is not a record";
    }

    const field_results = Object.entries(fields).map(([field_name, f]) => {
        if (val[field_name] === undefined) {
            return field_name + " is missing";
        }
        return f(field_name, val[field_name]);
    });

    const msg = field_results.filter(Boolean).sort().join(", ");

    if (msg) {
        return "in " + var_name + " " + msg;
    }

    return undefined;
}

export function check_array(var_name, val, checker) {
    if (!Array.isArray(val)) {
        return var_name + " is not an array";
    }

    for (const item of val) {
        const msg = checker("item", item);

        if (msg) {
            return "in " + var_name + " we found an item where " + msg;
        }
    }

    return undefined;
}