#161966910 Validate User Registration

[ThaDeveloper]

What does this PR do?

• Implement user registration validation

  Description of Task to be completed?

• Use regex to ensure data passed by the user meets the criteria set.

  How should this be manually tested?

  1. git clone -b ft-user-signup-validation-161966910 https://github.com/andela/ah-infinity-stones and $ cd ah-infinity-stones
  2. Create and activate virtual env
• virtualenv -p python3 venv
• $ source venv/bin/activate
  3. $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt to install the dependencies
  4. Setup environment variables. Copy all from below and paste them into the .env file. Update the values to your choice.

     export DATABASE_USER='user'
     export DATABASE_PASSWORD='password'
     export HOST='localhost'
     export PORT='5432'
     export DATABASE_TEST='ah_test'

     Activate the env variables by $source .env.

  5. Run migrations: $ python3 manage.py migrate
  6. Run tests - $ python3 manage.py runserver
  7. Acess http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/users/ provide inputs in the following format and submit.

     { "user": {
     "username": "username44",
     "email": "",
     "password": ""  
     }
     }

     Note : Provide username that's less than 4 characters or an invalid email or a password that doesn't have a special character, just to see the validations in action.

     What are the relevant pivotal tracker stories?

     #161966910

     Screenshots

     

[codeplus254]

Does the username always have to be unique? Or we could have two usernames that have different emails?

[ThaDeveloper]

Does the username always have to be unique? Or we could have two usernames that have different emails?

Username has to be unique and this has been catered for in the validation. Thanks