Hi,
submitted patch wouldn't break old apps (it has default of NOT
validating not-selected tabs).
But it has limitation:
it can validate only so far visited/rendered tabs (and only
visited/rendered subcomponents)
Limitation comes from the way TabbedPane is rendered:
it renders only active tab in server-side tabbing (lines 552-555 in
HtmlTabbedPaneRenderer).
This seems to be chosen for being less evil than messing with rendered
attribute in all tabs after change of selected tab [should be consulted
with original commiter].
Is there any method in MyFaces allowing to create component tree w/o
actually rendering it?
This would allow this kind of validation. (I fear that would require to
alter way rendering is functioning - decoupling rendering into creating
tree and actual rendering).
With regards,
Zdenek
Mike Kienenberger napsal(a):
I think someone else already pointed this out, but from an "ideal
design" point of view, the tabbed panes are for organizing information
visually, not for supporting partial validation.
To me, the ideal design would be to have all tabbed panes validated,
just like for any other visual element, and then, if you needed
partial validation, make use of the subForm tag by enclosing each
tabbed pane.
On 6/11/07, Paul Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I use server side switching. Validation of non-selected tab would break
many pages in my applications. As an example, one of the applications
allows the user to query a database. Each tab is a specific type of
query with it's own requirement, i.e. "Start Time" and End Time" fields
are required on the "Query by Time" and "SKU" is required on the "Query
by "SKU" tab. Forcing non-selected tab to pass validation would break
this part of the application since many cases the required fields have
no default value by design.
I can see a case where validation of non-selected tabs is need. As an
example, a series of tab that collect customer information where each
tab is a type of information, "Name" "Billing Address" "Shipping
Address".... Whether this should be implement as a
"validateNonSelectedTab" attribute on <t:panelTabbedPane> and/or
<t:panelTab> is it's own discussion.
Paul Spencer
