Race Conditions
A common pitfall with async validation is to ensure the value hasn't changed during async validation. Fortunately, every validation result from Strickland includes the
value that was validated as a result prop, making these race conditions possible to detect and guard against.Let's take a look at handling this race condition in application code:
const usernameValidator = [
required(),
length(2, 20),
usernameIsAvailableTwoStage
];
let username = 'marty';
let usernameResult = validate(usernameValidator, username);
username = 'mcfly';
if (usernameResult.validateAsync) {
usernameResult.validateAsync().then((asyncResult) => {
if (asyncResult.value === username) {
// this will not be reached since
// the username has changed
usernameResult = asyncResult;
}
});
}
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