I am sending an error message back to my iOS client when a user tries to create a password that contains the word 'password'.
I want to display a simple message to the user without having to slice strings, etc on the client so I DO NOT want to send the part 'User validation failed: password:' ONLY 'password cannot contain the word password'.
How do I customize this message in Node/Express? Is it a Mongoose or MongoDB implementation?
Thank you!
// Mongoose password model.
password : {
type: String,
required: [true, "password is required"],
validate(value) {
if (value.length < 6) {
throw new Error(`password must be longer than 6 characters`)
}
if (value.toLowerCase().includes(`password`)) {
throw new Error(`password cannot contain the word ${value}`)
}
},
trim: true,
minLength: [6, "password cannot be shorter than 8 characters"],
maxlength: [80, "name cannot be longer than 30 characters"]
},
// Router error response
catch(err) {
console.log(err.message)
res.status(500).send({error: err.message})
}
-> User validation failed: password: password cannot contain the word password
You can always customize error messages before sending them in Express:
catch(err) {
console.log(err.message)
// Add Message Customization Here:
const message = err.message.replace("User validation failed: password:", "");
res.status(500).send({error: message})
}