Validator from schema, including internal fields?
I'm passing full DB records to one of my actions and I'm trying to build the validator
After some tinkering it looks like this:
I am exporting the validator from the
The fact that I have to add the _id manually feels a bit awkward to me, but I need the id to be used as a foreign key
Am I doing something weird? Is this simply ok? (the action uses some of the fields of the record to create a record for a different table)
What I started looking for originally was like a built-in validator that can be extracted from the schema or somewhere else, similar as you can get the DB record type with Doc<"myTable"> but the equivalent for validators, including internal fields
After some tinkering it looks like this:
I am exporting the validator from the
schemaThe fact that I have to add the _id manually feels a bit awkward to me, but I need the id to be used as a foreign key
Am I doing something weird? Is this simply ok? (the action uses some of the fields of the record to create a record for a different table)
What I started looking for originally was like a built-in validator that can be extracted from the schema or somewhere else, similar as you can get the DB record type with Doc<"myTable"> but the equivalent for validators, including internal fields
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