# A-la-carte

You can also define your constraints on the fly right where you are doing your validation.

In this sample we validate the public request context `rc`. This sample validates all fields in the `rc`.  If you need more control you can specify the `fields` parameter (default all) or the `includeFields` and `excludeFields` parameters in your `validate()` call.

```javascript
// sample REST API create user
function create( event, rc, prc ){
	var validationResult = validate( 
		target = rc,
		constraints = { 
			username = { required = true },
			email = { required = true, type = "email" },
			password = { required = true }
		}
	)
	if ( !validationResult.hasErrors() ) {
		UserService.createUser(rc.username, rc.email, rc.password);
		prc.response.setData( UserService.readUser(username=rc.username) );
	} else {
		prc.response
			.setError( true )
			.addMessage( validationResult.getAllErrors())
			.setStatusCode( STATUS.BAD_REQUEST )
			.setStatusText( "Validation error" );
	}
}
```


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