Need help finding rootcause of “TypeError: req.checkBody(…).optional(…).isDate is not a function”

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#1

Need help finding rootcause of “TypeError: req.checkBody(…).optional(…).isDate is not a function”

I am trying to find the root cause of this error I am getting when using isDate() function as prescribed in your tutorial. Everything else works. Any pointers??

In /controllers/authorController.js I have this piece of code to create an author.

// Handle Author create on POST
exports.author_create_post = function(req, res, next) {
  console.log("DEBUG: starting in exports.author_create_post");
  req.checkBody('first_name', 'First name must be specified.').notEmpty(); //We won't force Alphanumeric, because people might have spaces.
  req.checkBody('family_name', 'Family name must be specified.').notEmpty();
  req.checkBody('family_name', 'Family name must be alphanumeric text.').isAlpha();
  **req.checkBody('date_of_birth', 'Invalid date').optional({ checkFalsy: true }).isDate();
  req.checkBody('date_of_death', 'Invalid date').optional({ checkFalsy: true }).isDate();
.....

Everytime I try to add the author, it gets stuck on the isDate() function.

The error I get is "

> TypeError: req.checkBody(...).optional(...).isDate is not a function
>     at exports.author_create_post (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/controllers/authorController.js:47:81)
>     at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
>     at next (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13)
>     at Route.dispatch (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3)
>     at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
>     at /Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:281:22
>     at Function.process_params (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)
>     at next (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)
>     at Function.handle (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:174:3)
>     at router (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:47:12)
>     at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
>     at trim_prefix (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:317:13)
>     at /Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7
>     at Function.process_params (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)
>     at next (/Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)
>     at /Users/MyComputer/Desktop/NodeJS/express-locallibrary-tutorial/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:635:15
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#2

Hi there,

Have you tried check your code against the finished source?

#3

Dear Chris,

Yes, I have verified with finished source. Later I filed a bug

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413781

I got the code to work only after I removed the toDate() call since isDate() has been removed from validator.js.

chrismills
November 3

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Need help finding rootcause of “TypeError: req.checkBody(…).optional(…).isDate is not a function”

Hi there,

Have you tried check your code against the finished source?

github.com

mdn/express-locallibrary-tutorial/blob/master/controllers/authorController.js

> var Author = require('../models/author')
> var async = require('async')
> var Book = require('../models/book') // Display list of all Authors
> exports.author_list = function(req, res, next) { Author.find() .sort([['family_name', 'ascending']]) .exec(function (err, list_authors) { if (err) { return next(err); } //Successful, so render res.render('author_list', { title: 'Author List', author_list: list_authors}); }) }; // Display detail page for a specific Author
> exports.author_detail = function(req, res, next) {
#4

OK, thanks. We are intending to update the module soon, to fix such problems. I’ve included your bug in the project brief of what needs to be done.

#5

Thanks Chris, while you are comipiling that list kindly include this other bug also
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413825

Two changes suggested for your docs to make the code work:

req.sanitize(‘genre’).escape(); // error here should be replaced by req.sanitize__(‘genre.*’).__escape();

req.sanitize(‘genre’).escape(); needs to replaced by

and in another place req.body.genre.split(",") needs to be replaced by req.body.genre.toString(). split(",")

#6

Already got that one too :wink: