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Version 18.1.0 of actionhero was just published.

Dependency	actionhero
Current Version	18.0.2
Type	dependency

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Release Notes

v18.1.0: Node.JS v9.x and better action validators.

Support for Node.js v9.x

ActionHero now support node.js v9.x, and we are running testing all new releases against it. The only change required was to support a change in how node handled parsedURL.search ( #1152).

• By @Martinlck and @evantahler via #1153

Action validators which return nothing are valid

ActionHero changed the behavior of action's param validators to only mark a param as invalid if they return false or throw an error. Previously, validators which did not return (or returned null) would be marked as failing.

Fro example, these validators which return null (they don't return) on a passing param would mark the email and password {email: 'evan@evan.com', password: 'password123'} valid:

const {Action} = require('actionhero')

class ValidatedAction extends Action {
  constructor () {
    super()
    this.inputs = {
      email: {
        required: true,
        validator: this.emailValidator
      },
      password: {
        required: true,
        validator: this.passwordValidator
      }
    }
  }

  emailValidator (param) {
    if (param.indexOf('@') < 0) {
      throw new Error('that is not a valid email address')
    }
  }

  passwordValidator (param) {
    if (param.length < 4) {
      throw new Error('password should be at least 3 letters long')
    }
  }

  run (data) { 
    // ...
  } 
}

by @evantahler via #1158

connection.setStatusCode for web clients

• Added a helper for the web type of connection to more easily set a custom status code in your actions. Remember that if you don't want to sent data back to the client, to use data.toRender = false:

// actions/custom404.js

const {Action} = require('./../index.js')

module.exports = class Custom404 extends Action {
  constructor () {
    super()
    this.name = 'custom 404 message'
    this.description = 'I return a 404 with a sassy message'
    this.outputExample = {}
  }

  async run ({connection, response}) {
    response.message = 'nope.'
    connection.setStatusCode(404)
  }
}

• by @evantahler via #1147

Increased verbosity for fatal error on handleMethod

If there was a fatal exception loading an initializer, you can now see what file & line number caused the problem

• by @rakhnin via #1157

Commits

The new version differs by 17 commits.

• 2b42dcd v18.1.0
• b803be4 Merge pull request #1158 from actionhero/validtors-returning-nothing-is-ok
• 0fa24b3 action validators which return nothing are valid
• 65c85f0 Merge pull request #1157 from rakhnin/master
• ef79860 increasing verbosity for fatal error on handleMethod
• 1e91e30 Update package.json
• fc956f9 Merge pull request #1154 from kytwb/master
• 0f9a9be clean up learn-more link in default index.html
• 7148b1b lock package.json to node v8 for now
• 1b4e00c update dependancies
• cd5b64d fix middleware-related typos in docs
• 20aef7e Merge pull request #1153 from actionhero/node-v9
• bcccc05 test node v9 and update parsedURL.search
• 3f910f6 Merge pull request #1147 from actionhero/web-status-code-helper
• c710ce4 docs for connection.setStatusCode

There are 17 commits in total.

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