Class Errors

Extends: ArrayProxy
Uses: Evented
Defined in: ../model/addon/-private/errors.js:13
Module: @ember-data/store

Holds validation errors for a given record, organized by attribute names.

Every Model has an errors property that is an instance of Errors. This can be used to display validation error messages returned from the server when a record.save() rejects.

For Example, if you had a User model that looked like this:

app/models/user.js 
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import Model, { attr } from '@ember-data/model';

export default Model.extend({
  username: attr('string'),
  email: attr('string')
});

And you attempted to save a record that did not validate on the backend:

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let user = store.createRecord('user', {
  username: 'tomster',
  email: 'invalidEmail'
});
user.save();

Your backend would be expected to return an error response that described the problem, so that error messages can be generated on the app.

API responses will be translated into instances of Errors differently, depending on the specific combination of adapter and serializer used. You may want to check the documentation or the source code of the libraries that you are using, to know how they expect errors to be communicated.

Errors can be displayed to the user by accessing their property name to get an array of all the error objects for that property. Each error object is a JavaScript object with two keys:

  • message A string containing the error message from the backend
  • attribute The name of the property associated with this error message
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<label>Username: {{input value=username}} </label>
{{#each model.errors.username as |error|}}
  <div class="error">
    {{error.message}}
  </div>
{{/each}}

<label>Email: {{input value=email}} </label>
{{#each model.errors.email as |error|}}
  <div class="error">
    {{error.message}}
  </div>
{{/each}}

You can also access the special messages property on the error object to get an array of all the error strings.

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{{#each model.errors.messages as |message|}}
  <div class="error">
    {{message}}
  </div>
{{/each}}

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add (attribute, messages)

Module: @ember-data/store

Defined in ../model/addon/-private/errors.js:199

attribute
String
- the property name of an attribute or relationship
messages
String[]|string
- an error message or array of error messages for the attribute

Manually adds errors to the record. This will trigger the becameInvalid event/ lifecycle method on the record and transition the record into an invalid state.

Example

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 let errors = get(user, 'errors');

 // add multiple errors
 errors.add('password', [
   'Must be at least 12 characters',
   'Must contain at least one symbol',
   'Cannot contain your name'
 ]);

 errors.errorsFor('password');
 // =>
 // [
 //   { attribute: 'password', message: 'Must be at least 12 characters' },
 //   { attribute: 'password', message: 'Must contain at least one symbol' },
 //   { attribute: 'password', message: 'Cannot contain your name' },
 // ]

 // add a single error
 errors.add('username', 'This field is required');

 errors.errorsFor('password');
 // =>
 // [
 //   { attribute: 'username', message: 'This field is required' },
 // ]

errorsFor (attribute) Array

Module: @ember-data/store

Defined in ../model/addon/-private/errors.js:109

attribute
String
returns
Array

Returns errors for a given attribute

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let user = store.createRecord('user', {
  username: 'tomster',
  email: 'invalidEmail'
});
user.save().catch(function(){
  user.get('errors').errorsFor('email'); // returns:
  // [{attribute: "email", message: "Doesn't look like a valid email."}]
});

has (attribute) Boolean

Module: @ember-data/store

Defined in ../model/addon/-private/errors.js:435

attribute
String
returns
Boolean
true if there some errors on given attribute

Checks if there are error messages for the given attribute.

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import Route from '@ember/routing/route';

export default Route.extend({
  actions: {
    save: function(user) {
      if (user.get('errors').has('email')) {
        return alert('Please update your email before attempting to save.');
      }
      user.save();
    }
  }
});

remove (member)

Module: @ember-data/store

Defined in ../model/addon/-private/errors.js:288

member
String
- the property name of an attribute or relationship

Manually removes all errors for a given member from the record. This will transition the record into a valid state, and triggers the becameValid event and lifecycle method.

Example:

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 let errors = get('user', errors);
 errors.add('phone', ['error-1', 'error-2']);

 errors.errorsFor('phone');
 // =>
 // [
 //   { attribute: 'phone', message: 'error-1' },
 //   { attribute: 'phone', message: 'error-2' },
 // ]

 errors.remove('phone');

 errors.errorsFor('phone');
 // => undefined