useForm() validateField() says field does not exist Vue 3

[andrewkingg]

What happened?

When I use useForm() I'm able to call validate() fine and it returns the following:

It shows I have a name and description field, but then when I call validateField('name') it says the field doesn't exist

Reproduction steps

1. call useForm() with initialValues
2. call validateField() on one of the fields

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Version

Vue.js 3.x and vee-validate 4.x

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

• [ ] Firefox
• [X] Chrome
• [ ] Safari
• [ ] Microsoft Edge

Relevant log output

No response

Demo link

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[logaretm]

This might be intended if you didn't call useField for that field name. Mainly because validateField tries to search for the field instance in the form:

https://github.com/logaretm/vee-validate/blob/main/packages/vee-validate/src/useForm.ts#L481-L486

The validate method isn't the same as it validates the form values regardless of what fields were actually registered.

I will tag this as an enhancement, for now, it would be ideal to eliminate this confusion.

[logaretm]

Closing since it is unlikely that you can validate a specific path that may represent a field or not.