48-Nodejs Course 2023: Database Models: Custom Data Casting: Encrypted Password

Custom Casts

Now let's talk about custom casts, what if we want to cast a value to a custom type, for example, we want to cast the password value.

Let's make a folder called casts in the src/core/database/casts folder and create cast-password.ts file.

We need to generate a make a password generated and to be solid, we will use Password Hash Generator And Verifier to achieve this easily.

Let's install it

yarn add @mongez/password

Now let's create the cast-password.ts file

// src/core/database/casts/cast-password.ts
import { hash } from '@mongez/password';

/**
 * Cast password
 */
export default function castPassword(
  columnName: string,
  value: any
) {
  return hash(value, 15); // second argument is the salt
}

Now let's update the User model to use this cast

// src/app/users/models/user.ts
import { Model } from "core/database";
import castPassword from "core/database/casts/cast-password";
import { Casts, Document } from "core/database/model/types";

export default class User extends Model {
  /**
   * Collection name
   */
  public static collectionName = "users";

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   */
  public defaultValue: Document = {
    isActive: true,
    isEmailVerified: false,
    isPhoneVerified: false,
  };

  protected casts: Casts = {
    isActive: "boolean",
    isPhoneVerified: "boolean",
    joinDate: "date",
    password: castPassword,
  };
}

Now let's try to create a new user

// src/app/users/routes.ts
import User from './models/user';

const user = new User({
  name: 'Hassan',
  password: '123456',
});

await user.save();

consol.log(user.data); // { name: 'Hassan', password: '$2b$23$...' }