How to retrieve a form's validator

Question

What is the correct way to get the current jQuery validator object for an existing form?

Note, the validator is being configured using the jQuery Unobtrusive validation plugin hence why I don't have a reference to it.

Answer 1

From documentation:

The validate method returns a Validator object

Next code will gets existing validator or init it

var validator = $("form_selector").validate(); 

Answer 2

You want:

var validator = $("#form_id").data("validator");