support for schema.paths

[bwgjoseph]

Hi,

Is there any way to grab the list of fields that is registered for a given schema?

const myschema = new Schema({ name: string, capacity: number });

// get a list of schemas keys
// output [name, capacity]
Object.keys(myschema.paths);
// myschema.paths actually give the schema definition

I saw on the docs that ottoman has path but not paths method.

[AV25242]

I am not aware of something like this, but what would be the use case ?

[bwgjoseph]

I could say, write a plugin that only runs if a certain field exists.

if (Object.keys(schema.paths).includes('certainfield')) {
   // do some manipulation to the data
}

or just purely check if certain fields exists

function doesFieldExist(schema, fieldName) {
  return Object.keys(schema.paths).includes(fieldName);
}

I am currently using this checks to perform certain action across different schemas based on what fields exists or not exists.

[AV25242]

Lino will explore the fields method on Schema

[AV25242]

from Lino

function doesFieldExist(schema: Schema, fieldName: string): boolean {
  return !!schema.path(fieldName)
}

[bwgjoseph]

Thank you for the suggestion, it works as expected