[Reactor For CF] Volunteers?

[Doug Hughes]

Just wondering – would anyone out there be willing to make some validation improvements and enhancements to reactor for the community?  Specifically, I’m looking to break validation out of the record objects and into a validation object.    I’m thinking the validation objects will, by default have one method to validate every property of the object.  IE. validateFirstNameLength(UserRecord) validateFirstNameProvided(UserRecord).  These would be grouped into one method per property, validateFirstName(UserRecord).  Then there would be another method, validate(UserRecord) that would call all of the validateProperty methods.  Each of these would accept and return an error collection.   Why?  Well, I found out the hard way how restrictive the validation on records is right now.  For example, I’ve had a few case where a user needs to be validated and either something or something else needs to be provided based on business rules.  Basically somewhere where I wanted to REMOVE one of the validation routines in the validate method.  In that case I had to copy all of the validate method from the generated object into  customizable object and edit one line of code.  Ugh!  I’d like to be able to override validation of one property without touching everything.    I figure the record object will still have a validate method, it would just create a validation object and pass itself into it to validate itself and it would set the results into the record and return it.  (In case anyone hasn’t noticed records now have methods to see if the object has been validated or has errors, etc.)   Anyone willing to take this on for the betterment of the community?   Doug -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List -- reactor@doughughes.net -- Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/