Hi all, I'm thinking to add some (I know, trivial but common in real-world examples) validators for text fields (aligned with other validators, but useful to me for starting a more general solution for the future), like NotNullValidator (if text fields never returns a null maybe this could not be done), NotEmptyValidator, DateValidator (using the default locale) and maybe others ... for the 2.0.1 .
Maybe for the 2.1 we could think to change the subject of Validators from String to Object (maybe with generics, so cast only when desired), to being able to handle more general data validation, Ok ? (1) What do you think ? And last (but maybe this for the 2.1 release, I could open a ticket for this), a Validator interface (like that in JSF) that I could for example attach to a Pivot Form, in Java code and/or in bxml (like in a JSF/HTML Form) and let it handle all validation of Form fields ... without having to work only on Strings (as currently our validators do). And create a class to handle validation messages, like severity (info, warning, error), label, id of the component that this message refers to (the skin here could use this to display a flag, or an overlay, or other, or none and display all messages in another place), etc ... and maybe handle a List of ValidationMessage inside a Form, if wanted. For a sample signature (JSF-2.0): http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17802_01/j2ee/javaee/javaserverfaces/2.0/docs/api/javax/faces/validator/Validator.html http://java.dzone.com/articles/jsf-validation-tutorial-error We could even make a validate() method without parameters, but to store messages etc probably something like JSF Validators is good. (2) What do you think ? Bye
