Sinatra::AcceptParams - Parameter whitelisting for Sinatra

This plugin adds parameter whitelisting, type checking, and validation at the routing level to a Sinatra application. While model-level validations are good for CRUD operations, in many cases there are other input parameters which are either not part of a model, or which you want to verify before executing lots of (potentially unsafe) code just to have your model raise an error. Examples include:

• page numbers for pagination
• search strings
• routing prefixes such as region or language

In addition, this plugin provides several extended capabilities which come in handy:

• type checking of parameters (eg, integers vs strings)
• automatic type casting of parameters (helps with plugins such as will_paginate)
• default values and post-processing of params

Example

# GET /channels
# GET /channels.xml
def index
  accept_params do |p|
    p.integer :page, :default => 1, :minvalue => 1
    p.integer :per_page, :default => 50, :minvalue => 1
  end
end


# POST /rating
# POST /rating.xml
def create
  accept_params do |p|
    p.namespace :rating do |p|
      p.integer :user_id, :required => true, :minvalue => 1
      p.integer :rating,  :required => true
      p.string  :comments, :process => Proc.new(value){ my_value_cleaner(value) }  # return filtered value
    end
  end

  @rating = Rating.new(params[:rating])
  @rating.save
  
  # format/response code
end


# GET /players/1
# GET /players/1.xml
def show
  accept_only_id
  @player = Player.find(params[:id])

  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # show.html.erb
    format.xml  { render :xml => @player }
  end
end

Author

Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Nate Wiger. All Rights Reserved. This code is released under the Artistic License.