How to validate a Code Identifier in Javascript

Today we will be looking at how to check if a code identifier is valid or not. This is actually a lot easier than it at first sounds, especially since we will be bypassing most of the work by using an API for this task.

We can begin by importing our API client using this script tag:

<script src="https://cdn.cloudmersive.com/jsclient/cloudmersive-validate-client.js"></script>

Follow this with our function call here:

var CloudmersiveValidateApiClient = require('cloudmersive-validate-api-client');
var defaultClient = CloudmersiveValidateApiClient.ApiClient.instance;
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
var Apikey = defaultClient.authentications['Apikey'];
Apikey.apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY';
// Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null)
//Apikey.apiKeyPrefix = 'Token';
var apiInstance = new CloudmersiveValidateApiClient.NameApi();
var input = new CloudmersiveValidateApiClient.ValidateIdentifierRequest(); // ValidateIdentifierRequest | Identifier validation request information
var callback = function(error, data, response) {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
} else {
console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + data);
}
};
apiInstance.nameIdentifier(input, callback);

Now you can test it out on a code identifier. Yup, it’s already set to go! This same validation API offers a number of other useful functions like this, supporting names, addresses, email, and more.