SailsJS - How to specify string attribute length without getting error when creating record?

Question

I\'m using Sails 0.9.8 paired with MySQL and wanting to do something like this

localhost:1337/player/view/

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Answer 1

The marked answer is quiet old. As per the latest sails version (1.0.2 as of the date of writing this answer),

I used the columnType attribute like this:

attributes: {

  longDescription: {
    type: 'string',
    columnType: 'text'
  }
}

Answer 2

You could work around this by defining custom validation rules via the types object. Specifically the given problem could be solved by defining a custom size validator that always returns true.

// api/models/player.js
module.exports = {
  types: {
    size: function() {
       return true;
    }
  },

  attributes: {
    username: {
      type: 'string',
      unique: true,
      minLength: 4,
      maxLength: 32,
      size: 32,
      required: true
    }
  }
}