In an Angular2 project I need to validate some inputs. How to easily check if an input value is an integer?
I tried using Number(control.value)
which returns 0
for an empty field - not good.
or parseInt(control.value,10)
which dis-considers spaces:
If i have something like: 1 space 0,24 = 1 ,024
it returns 1 - which passes the validator with no errors.
Lodash functions like: _.isInteger(control.value)
or _.isNumeric(control.value)
// return false every time
-which is expected, because an input value is a string not a number.
Combining methods like this creates a messy function with many if/else statements, and even then, I'm not sure i get all the edge cases. I definitely need a more straight forward approach. Any ideas?
Just create a custom validator:
import { AbstractControl, ValidationErrors, ValidatorFn } from '@angular/forms';
export function integer(): ValidatorFn {
return (control: AbstractControl): ValidationErrors | null => {
const error: ValidationErrors = { integer: true };
if (control.value && control.value !== `${parseInt(control.value, 10)}`) {
control.setErrors(error);
return error;
}
control.setErrors(null);
return null;
};
}
then use it in your form:
import { integer } from '...';
form.get('yourControl').setValidators([integer()]);
this will work even with inputs of type text
This is the cleanest way i found so far:
app.component.html:
<input formControlName="myNumber">
app.component.ts:
export class AppComponent {
myNumber:FormControl
constructor(private _ValidatorsService: ValidatorsService){
}
this.myNumber= new FormControl('defaultValue',
[ Validators.required, this._ValidatorsService.isInteger ]);
}
validators.service.ts:
function check_if_is_integer(value){
// I can have spacespacespace1 - which is 1 and validators pases but
// spacespacespace doesn't - which is what i wanted.
// 1space2 doesn't pass - good
// of course, when saving data you do another parseInt.
return ((parseFloat(value) == parseInt(value)) && !isNaN(value));
}
@Injectable()
export class ValidatorsService {
public isInteger = (control:FormControl) => {
// here, notice we use the ternary operator to return null when value is the integer we want.
// you are supposed to return null for the validation to pass.
return check_if_is_integer(control.value) ? null : {
notNumeric: true
}
}
}
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