Merge pull request #1435 from strongloop/create-update-pass3

Catch errors using cb

lib/dao.js

@@ -312,15 +312,19 @@ DataAccessObject.create = function(data, options, cb) {
   var obj;
   var idValue = getIdValue(this, data);
 
+  try {
   // if we come from save
-  if (data instanceof Model && !idValue) {
-    obj = data;
-  } else {
-    obj = new Model(data);
-  }
+    if (data instanceof Model && !idValue) {
+      obj = data;
+    } else {
+      obj = new Model(data);
+    }
 
-  this.applyProperties(enforced, obj);
-  obj.setAttributes(enforced);
+    this.applyProperties(enforced, obj);
+    obj.setAttributes(enforced);
+  } catch (err) {
+    return cb(err);
+  }
 
   Model = this.lookupModel(data); // data-specific
   if (Model !== obj.constructor) obj = new Model(data);

test/datatype.test.js

@@ -34,11 +34,10 @@ describe('datatypes', function() {
         list: {type: ['object']},
       });
 
-      (function() {
-        myModel.create({list: 'This string will crash the server'});
-      }).should.throw({statusCode: 400});
-
-      done();
+      myModel.create({list: 'This string will crash the server'}, function(err) {
+        (err.statusCode).should.equal(400);
+        done();
+      });
     });
 
   it('should return 400 when property of type array is set to object value',
@@ -47,11 +46,10 @@ describe('datatypes', function() {
         list: {type: ['object']},
       });
 
-      (function() {
-        myModel.create({list: {key: 'This string will crash the server'}});
-      }).should.throw({statusCode: 400});
-
-      done();
+      myModel.create({list: {key: 'This string will crash the server'}}, function(err) {
+        (err.statusCode).should.equal(400);
+        done();
+      });
     });
 
   it('should keep types when get read data from db', function(done) {

test/manipulation.test.js

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ describe('manipulation', function() {
   before(function setupStubUserModel(done) {
     StubUser = db.createModel('StubUser', {password: String}, {forceId: true});
     StubUser.setter.password = function(plain) {
+      if (plain.length === 0) throw new Error('password cannot be empty');
       var hashed = false;
       if (!plain) return;
       var pos = plain.indexOf('-');
@@ -542,6 +543,22 @@ describe('manipulation', function() {
       });
     });
 
+    it('should reject created StubUser with empty password', function(done) {
+      StubUser.create({email: 'b@example.com', password: ''}, function(err, createdUser) {
+        (err.message).should.match(/password cannot be empty/);
+        done();
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should reject updated empty password with updateAttribute', function(done) {
+      StubUser.create({password: 'abc123'}, function(err, createdUser) {
+        if (err) return done(err);
+        createdUser.updateAttribute('password', '', function(err, updatedUser) {
+          (err.message).should.match(/password cannot be empty/);
+          done();
+        });
+      });
+    });
     it('should update one attribute', function(done) {
       person.updateAttribute('name', 'Paul Graham', function(err, p) {
         if (err) return done(err);