express-validator on PUT methods - express

Question

I'm creating an API and decided to use express-validator for validation (duh), I've never used this before so I'm unsure on some aspects of it so my validations might not be the best but I'm getting by.
I have built two validation middle ware using this and export them from the same folder like this:
module.exports = {
create: require('./create'),
update: require('./update')
}
So I can then do this in my router:
const validation = require('../validations/plotValidation')
// ...
router.get('/', controller.all)
router.post('/create', validation.create(), controller.create)
router.get('/:plotId', controller.read)
router.put('/:plotId/update', validation.update(), controller.update)
router.delete('/:plotId/delete', controller.delete)
// ...
I'm not good enough with express-validator to do both validate both routes with the same file, maybe I'll try it at some point, anyway.
The .post method works fine and validates everything I want it to however the .put method just seems to be ignoring every check here are is file in case you want to see the checks:
const { body, check, param } = require('express-validator');
module.exports = () => {
return [
param('plotId')
.exists().withMessage('URI requires plot id'),
body('price')
.optional()
.isObject()
]
}
As you can probably tell I only just stated it, but even with only these two tiny checks it just doesn't seem to run.
Does express-validator not work on PUT methods?

Answer 1

For anyone else who has this issue I solved this by using .run on my checks, you can read more about this here essentially this is the code that saved me:
// parallel processing
const validate = validations => {
return async (req, res, next) => {
await Promise.all(validations.map(validation => validation.run(req)));
const errors = validationResult(req);
if (errors.isEmpty()) {
return next();
}
res.status(400).json({ errors: errors.array() });
};
};