Optional flag not working for sub-schemas

[vpalos]

In version 3.4.0 of the package, setting optional: true on an object property which has its own required sub-fields, will enforce the object's sub-fields as required, even if the entire object is missing (which should be allowed, since the object itself is marked as optional).

See example below:

const addressSchema = new Schema({
    city: String,
});

const schema = new Schema({
    name: String,
    homeAddress: addressSchema,
    billingAddress: {
        type: addressSchema,
        optional: true,
    },
});

const context = schema.newContext();
context.validate({
  // EMPTY OBJECT
});

console.error(context.validationErrors());

The console output will show these errors:

0:{name: 'name', type: 'required', value: undefined} // OK
1:{name: 'homeAddress', type: 'required', value: undefined} // OK
2:{name: 'homeAddress.city', type: 'required', value: undefined} // OK
3:{name: 'billingAddress.city', type: 'required', value: undefined} // THIS IS WRONG!!!

Expected behavior: The last error should not happen, of course because the entire billingAddress object is set as optional: true, therefore it's internal properties should only be enforced if (and only if) the object exists in the first place.

This expected behavior is also described in the documentation: https://github.com/longshotlabs/simpl-schema#optional

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[pozylon]

Same here, had to downgrade to 3.2.0, it's a regression

[loliarz]

I'm using nested objects validation a lot and also got this issue, are there any plans to fix that?

[jmdsg]

Yeah, I am also facing the same issue. Are there any plans?

[herchu]

I came across this issue as well. And after some debugging I found it's a change (a regression in my opinion) between 3.2.0 and 3.3.0.

Here is a sandbox to play with code, where you can switch between simpl-schema versions. I shortened the case to this schema:

const addressSchema = new SimpleSchema({
  city: String,
  street: String
});
const personSchema = new SimpleSchema({
  name: String,
  address: { type: addressSchema, optional: true }
});

Here, a person's address should be optional, but if it appears, it must contain a city and address. An object such as { name: 'Joe' } should pass validation, and it does in 3.2.0, but it does not in 3.3 and 3.4.

We found the issue while doing a round of package updates; we will stick for 3.2.0 for now, but I would appreciate if anyone knows why this was changed -- or otherwise, if there is any way to mark as optional nested objects with mandatory fields (I think that's a good description of what the issue is).

[red-meadow]

We are facing the same issue. Can the change be reversed? @aldeed

[robbterr]

it´s somewhere in the commit e8f91dcd5016b3998cbec425fa77f337b398fc96 for "feat: improved oneOf support" by @znewsham and @aldeed but i can´t find the bug

[moonrockfamily]

it´s somewhere in the commit e8f91dc for "feat: improved oneOf support" by @znewsham and @aldeed but i can´t find the bug

It seems the def.optional reference: https://github.com/longshotlabs/simpl-schema/blob/3e258c550cb056f7e19b08330833591de1d551e7/src/validation/validateField.ts#L318 will never be evaluated as the def reference is only assigned within the for loop: https://github.com/longshotlabs/simpl-schema/blob/3e258c550cb056f7e19b08330833591de1d551e7/src/validation/validateField.ts#L152 resulting in the temporary assignment of an {} empty object even when the definition has specified the object is optional!

[moonrockfamily]

Thought I'd share another gotcha with version 3.2.0 and its dependency on mongo-object 3.0.1 with a 'length' field bug! The below image shows the 'collection' variable value, with a length value and causing the 'while' loop to work away...

Kind of stuck! This latest version with the nested 'optional' misbehavior and the older version with its looping 'length' bug... lots of fun.

[moonrockfamily]

I'll open an issue on the mongo-object project for the each functions unexpected looping behavior when processing an object with length property but not really an array. This package's clean function is using mongo-object's removeArrayItems function which uses the mentioned each utility function.

Something like this isArrayLike function may solve it, but I'll need to write a bunch of tests first to contemplate the scenarios thoroughly to ensure the addition of the object has numeric keys condition is desirable.

/**
 * Checks if the given object is array-like, meaning it is not null or undefined, has a finite length, and has numeric keys.
 * @param {Object} obj - The object to check.
 * @returns {boolean} - True if the object is array-like, false otherwise.
 */
function isArrayLike(obj) {
  return obj != null && typeof obj === 'object' && isFinite(obj.length) && obj.length >= 0 && obj.length === Math.floor(obj.length) && obj.length < Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER && (obj[0] !== undefined || obj[obj.length-1] !== undefined || Object.keys(obj).length == 0);
}

[drone1]

Looks like it's been over a year since this was reported -- any plans to fix this? To not fix this? Any update or suggestions for a temporary fix would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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[aldeed]

Thanks for your help debugging @moonrockfamily and others. I believe this should be fixed in 3.4.6