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Paul Benedict commented on VALIDATOR-232:
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I don't use any javascript validation on my apps because, specifically, I do 
not want to expose any mask elements. In a perfect world, I could switch off 
validation scripting for these fields -- not just password fields -- on an 
as-needed basis. But because I don't have this freedom, I only do server side 
validation. And if I had this option, I may find in the future how useful this 
is for other things... 

You raise a good point about switching off validations per type or substituting 
corrected scripts. However, you'd be surprise how many good java developers do 
not know javascript :-) In some instances, a person may simply just choose to 
turn it off rather than replace it.

I've been viewing this issue to something like CSS stylesheets. With the CSS 
"media" attribute, and I get to say which media the styling belongs (screen, 
printer, audio, etc.). Likewise, I believe it is good to give developers the 
freedom to direct what media the validation belongs. For Commons Validator, 
there's two media components: scripting and Java. If I don't care for how a 
script works, I'd be more willing to disable it and rely on the server-side 
version than replace it.

While I haven't done this yet, I'd be very interested in replacing some 
client-side validation with perhaps DOJO/Ajax validation. I may want to (1) 
have only one form field that uses Web 2.0 features, (2) keep the standard JS 
validation on other fields but (3) still rely on the server-side validation for 
all fields as "standard practice". It opens up some interesting possibilities 
here.

> Add script attribute to control script generation
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: VALIDATOR-232
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VALIDATOR-232
>             Project: Commons Validator
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Framework
>            Reporter: Paul Benedict
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.4
>
>         Attachments: VALIDATOR-232.dtd.patch, VALIDATOR-232.patch
>
>
> Add a script="true|false" attribute to <field> to control whether JavaScript 
> should be generated.
> Also see: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/STR-1888

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