All:

After working on the validation code for DynaForms, I'm a bit stumped
on how to provide support for validating nested properties.  For
instance, if I have a Person class which has an Address property, my
validation would look like:

<form name="personForm">
            <field property="firstName" depends="required">
                <arg0 key="first.name"/>
            </field>
            <field property="lastName" depends="required">
                <arg0 key="last.name"/>
            </field>
            <field property="homeAddress.address1" depends="required">
                <arg0 key="home.address.1"/>
            </field>
            <field property="homeAddress.city" depends="required">
                <arg0 key="home.address.city"/>
            </field>
            <field property="homeAddress.zip" depends="required">
                <arg0 key="home.address.zip"/>
            </field>
</form>

However, I'm unable to get the template to create the "homeAddress."
prefix.  My generated validation looks like:

<form name="personForm">
            <field property="firstName" depends="required">
                <arg0 key="first.name"/>
            </field>
            <field property="lastName" depends="required">
                <arg0 key="last.name"/>
            </field>
            <field property="address1" depends="required">
                <arg0 key="home.address.1"/>
            </field>
            <field property="city" depends="required">
                <arg0 key="home.address.city"/>
            </field>
            <field property="zip" depends="required">
                <arg0 key="home.address.zip"/>
            </field>
</form>

Which clearly won't work, since the form property name is
"homeAddress.XXXX".  The template engine checks the Address class for
the validation info, but I need a way to give the base property name. 
Any thoughts on this?

Thanks.

-Nick


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