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[enochnyako]

I wasn’t sure about the username example but it does work and make sense if all auth and similar operations know to apply the same transformation to the user input.
Thanks Arpit

[awesomeworld]

Although correct remember exceptions do exist

[rigveddesai]

are you sure about the bio example? if there's a character limit, shouldn't we be failing the operation and sending an error back to the user instead of trimming and saving it which isn't exactly the expected behaviour in most cases.

with that being said, nice video 👍

[balakumar]

Then what is the use of validation in the front end ?

[RanjeetMD]

Then the business people come back shouting why they don't see all the data they entered and why some part of it is missing??? It might be rude in social life to correct people upfront but in API world it is must to enjoy your personal life instead of explaining how liberal your were while trimming their data and changing it to lower/upper case.

[funwithone_official]

If someone put their username in camlecase if back and stored in small then while retrieving again how this will be converted into camlecase again

[ArjunSingh-srjf]

Want more depth knowledge about good APIs

[build-your-own-x]

But the ui should not allow user to send wrong data else it will be a bad ux

[namitpiriya]

if I accept some username that is 12 length and my db allows only 10 meaning the user will see the name cut not a good experience to have as a user.
every app has a limit that they display on the frontend.
the client should adhere to that I think and backend should have checks what they are accepting.If you accept an extra key a malicious request could come with a larger file that you did not expect.

[rabindrajoshi]

One site was liberal with the password field upon registering so they decided to trim it to 12 characters...
When I tried to login, I could not.

[verma_raunit]

But hey my username was rauNIT how it became raunit

[SuperHuman]

Finaly whats the catch. Just be a business man like Ambani and aadhani Take all and.fice little to public. Thats it.. dont be Tata thats it na...

[shogunkodogun]

bullshit over-engineering. just write the code and fix the bugs. You’re not doing some magical CRUD. You keep applying SOLID principles and clean code and 100 other craps in your coolie outsourced IT job 😊

[incredible]

this is why your channel is not growing 😂😂