[OS-webwork] Branching 1.3 to allow for new development

2003-01-21 Thread Jason Carreira
I propose that we branch the current code base to be the code base for 1.3 and any bugfixes thereto, and allow new development to occur on the head (with bugfixes merged back, of course). Thoughts? Jason -- Jason Carreira Technical Architect, Notiva Corp. phone: 585.240.2793 fax:

[OS-webwork] Validation Framework (checked into Xwork)

2003-01-21 Thread Jason Carreira
I checked a new validation framework into Xwork this morning that I got running last night. It's based on some ideas like runtime attributes and deployment descriptors. What it does (triggered by a ValidationInterceptor in the interceptor list for an action) is to load validation xml files for the

Re: [OS-webwork] Validation Framework (checked into Xwork)

2003-01-21 Thread Hani Suleiman
How would you handle i18n support, and parametrised messages? Eg, if you wanted '${0} is an invalid name' as your message Quoting Jason Carreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I checked a new validation framework into Xwork this morning that I got running last night. It's based on some ideas like runtime

Re: [OS-webwork] Validation Framework (checked into Xwork)

2003-01-21 Thread Anthony Eden
Jason, Why are you writing a new validation framework when FormProc has already gone through these issues? Check out FormProc ( http://formproc.sf.net/ ) and let me know if their is something missing which would be necessary to make it fit WebWork developer needs. Sincerely, Anthony Eden

RE: [OS-webwork] Validation Framework (checked into Xwork)

2003-01-21 Thread Jason Carreira
Well, I didn't know it existed, for one :-) In looking at it, it seems like it does too much. It seems to combine bean population with validation. I'm also not sure how I feel about the whole validation with any scripting language and RE's, etc. I actually really kind of hate things that bundle

Re: [OS-webwork] Validation Framework (checked into Xwork)

2003-01-21 Thread Anthony Eden
Response inline... Jason Carreira wrote: Well, I didn't know it existed, for one :-) No worries...FormProc has been discussed as an option for validation in WebWork in the past, so I figured that you knew about it. In looking at it, it seems like it does too much. It seems to combine bean

RE: [OS-webwork] Validation Framework (checked into Xwork)

2003-01-21 Thread Jason Carreira
FormProc can do as much or as little as you like. If you only specify a validator then the values will only be validated. If you want to use FormProc to do type conversion then you can specify a type converter. This goes the same for storing the data (in a bean, hash map, etc),