Taher,

I think you misunderstood what Scott said. What I understood is he was speaking about the 1st block of code in ModelService.validate() which ends with a return.

I agreed that this clock of code is not needed in isValid() and removed it in 
my proposition.
Because isValid() does not makes sense to be called with a context with a 
RESPONSE_MESSAGE which could be RESPOND_ERROR or RESPOND_FAIL.
You should simply call isValid() with IN parameters to validate the service and 
its context before calling the service with this context.
BTW maybe I should make this more clear in the Javadoc?

So it's not about returning a response message and a boolean perfectly fits 
there. Scott please confirm.

Thanks

Jacques


Le 29/12/2016 à 07:45, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit :
I tend to also prefer a response message. Adding something new like a
boolean flag puts more information for people to process needlessly. Less
is more I think.

On Dec 29, 2016 12:55 AM, "Jacques Le Roux" <[email protected]>
wrote:

Yes, I wondered about that.

In my case the following simplified code would work, because it's used
before running the service.
I guess it's how it should be used (why running isValid() before
running?). So I guess we can simply use that

     public boolean isValid(Map<String, Object> context, String mode,
Locale locale) {
         try {
             validate(context, mode, locale);
         } catch (ServiceValidationException e) {
             return false;
         }
         return true;
     }

Other opinions?

Jacques


Le 28/12/2016 à 21:48, Scott Gray a écrit :

I guess it depends on how this will be used but I think there is a big
difference between " // do not validate results with errors" and returning
false from an isValid method.  IMO an error output response is perfectly
valid.

Regards
Scott

On 28 December 2016 at 21:47, <[email protected]> wrote:

Author: jleroux
Date: Wed Dec 28 08:47:25 2016
New Revision: 1776243

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1776243&view=rev
Log:
Implemented: Add a isValid() method to the ModelService class
(OFBIZ-9158)

The idea is to use validate() to render a boolean result. I needed that
in
a
custom project, I think it's worth contributing.

Modified:
      ofbiz/trunk/framework/service/src/main/java/org/apache/
ofbiz/service/ModelService.java

Modified: ofbiz/trunk/framework/service/src/main/java/org/apache/
ofbiz/service/ModelService.java
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/trunk/framework/service/
src/main/java/org/apache/ofbiz/service/ModelService.
java?rev=1776243&r1=1776242&r2=1776243&view=diff
============================================================
==================
--- ofbiz/trunk/framework/service/src/main/java/org/apache/
ofbiz/service/ModelService.java (original)
+++ ofbiz/trunk/framework/service/src/main/java/org/apache/
ofbiz/service/ModelService.java Wed Dec 28 08:47:25 2016
@@ -600,6 +600,32 @@ public class ModelService extends Abstra
       }

       /**
+     * Validates a Map against the IN or OUT parameter information
+     * Same than validate() with same signature but returns a boolean
instead of exceptions
+     * @param context the context
+     * @param mode Test either mode IN or mode OUT
+     * @param locale the actual locale to use
+     */
+    public boolean isValid(Map<String, Object> context, String mode,
Locale locale) {
+        boolean verboseOn = Debug.verboseOn();
+        if (verboseOn) Debug.logVerbose("[ModelService.validate] : {" +
this.name + "} : Validating context - " + context, module);
+
+        // do not validate results with errors
+        if (mode.equals(OUT_PARAM) && context != null &&
context.containsKey(RESPONSE_MESSAGE)) {
+            if (RESPOND_ERROR.equals(context.get(RESPONSE_MESSAGE)) ||
RESPOND_FAIL.equals(context.get(RESPONSE_MESSAGE))) {
+                if (verboseOn) Debug.logVerbose("[ModelServic
e.validate]
: {" + this.name + "} : response was an error, not validating.",
module);
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+        try {
+            validate(context, mode, locale);
+        } catch (ServiceValidationException e) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
        * Validates a map of name, object types to a map of name, objects
        * @param info The map of name, object types
        * @param test The map to test its value types.





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