From 0c19b1e57c1a85132ad8e4d47e53197f7791295b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@nodebb.org>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 11:14:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: send back missing parameters as array of missing
 properties, in API response

---
 src/controllers/helpers.js | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/controllers/helpers.js b/src/controllers/helpers.js
index d893463352..0d8d8762f1 100644
--- a/src/controllers/helpers.js
+++ b/src/controllers/helpers.js
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ helpers.formatApiResponse = async (statusCode, res, payload) => {
 		const response = {};
 
 		// Update status code based on some common error codes
-		switch (payload.message) {
+		switch (message) {
 			case '[[error:user-banned]]':
 				Object.assign(response, await generateBannedResponse(res));
 				// intentional fall through
@@ -455,6 +455,11 @@ helpers.formatApiResponse = async (statusCode, res, payload) => {
 				break;
 		}
 
+		if (message.startsWith('[[error:required-parameters-missing, ')) {
+			const params = message.slice('[[error:required-parameters-missing, '.length, -2).split(' ');
+			Object.assign(response, { params });
+		}
+
 		const returnPayload = await helpers.generateError(statusCode, message);
 		returnPayload.response = response;