1

Hi,

I have been searching in the documentation and all over Google all evening to find out how I would render form errors for individual form fields in Leaf - something like this

<form method="POST">
    <input type="email" name="email"/>
    #if(emailError):
        <p>#(emailError)</p>
    #endif

    ...
</form>

but so far not successful.

func register(req: Request) throws -> Response {
    do {
        try User.Create.validate(content: req)
    } catch {
        print(error) // <--- prints list of error messages
        let context = ...
        return try req.view.render("auth/signup.leaf", context)
    }

    ...
}

this would be "okay" if I just wanted to just list the errors e.g. at the top of the form.

I hope that someone in this forum has a solution to this problem.

2

Are you setting the emailError in the context in the catch?

3

It was my plan (unless there is a better way) but in the catch I am only able to get a list of error strings but not which field fails the validations.

4

The validations library may not be the easiest thing to use for that use case, you might want to roll something manually in that case

5

Yeah, I was afraid you would say that :sweat_smile:

I noticed that all error strings would start with the name of the failing field - e.g. "username is empty".
Would this be an okay way of doing it (only going to do something like this in this route)?

struct SignUpFormContext: Encodable {
    var username: String?
    var email: String?
    var usernameError: String?
    var emailError: String?
    var passwordError: String?
}

func signupPostHandler(req: Request) async throws -> Response {
    do {
        try User.Create.validate(content: req)
    } catch {
        let data = try req.content.decode(User.Create.self)
            
        var context = SignUpFormContext()
        context.username = data.username
        context.email = data.email
            
        if let errors = error as? ValidationsError {
            errors.failures.forEach { result in
                if result.isFailure {
                    if let field = result.failureDescription?.components(separatedBy: " ").first {
                        switch field {
                        case "username":
                            context.usernameError = result.failureDescription
                            break
                        case "email":
                            context.emailError = result.failureDescription
                            break
                        case "password":
                            context.passwordError = result.failureDescription
                            break
                        default:
                            break
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
            
        return try await req.view.render("auth/signup", context).encodeResponse(for: req)
    }

    ...
}
6

Yeah that's probably what I'd do

7

Really appreciate all the help.