string.md

Type: string

The string type corresponds to the Joi.string() schema.

String notation

{
    name: 'string:min=1,max=100,required'
    card: 'string:creditCard',
    computer: 'string:hostname'
}

Object notation

{
    name: {

        '@type': 'string',
        min: 1,
        max: 100,
        required: true
    },

    card: {

        '@type': 'string',
        creditCard: true
    },

    computer: {

        '@type': 'string',
        hostname: true
    }
}

Additional properties

Most operations for string processing are available including:

• min
• max
• required
• insensitive
• creditCard
• regex
• alphanum
• hex
• hostname
• lowercase
• uppercase
• token

Automatic string trimming

Strings are automatically trimmed. To disable this functionality, add the trim=false property to your schema as in the following example:

{
    name: 'string: min=1, max=100, trim=false, required'
}

For more information on this type, see the Joi documentation.