I have a persistent bean with a "created time" property. I want to set
it once at creation time then never touch it again.
In my handler for a form to edit the bean in question, I have the
equivalent of this:
bean = queryManager.restore(getInputInt("beanId"));
fillSubmissionBean(bean);
if (bean.validate()) {
... save it ...
} else {
generateForm(template, bean);
print(template);
}
When I try to call fillSubmissionBean() in a handler for a form that
doesn't include a field for the creation time, RIFE nulls out the
creation time rather than leaving it alone. That causes my validation to
fail (the property has a notNull(true) constraint) and I get a
"mandatory" message in my form's error section, not attached to any field.
I've tried fiddling with the likely-looking constraints on this
property, though not exhaustively. A bunch of the properties in
ConstrainedProperty aren't really documented in the Javadoc; is there a
list somewhere of what all the constraints do? In particular, I thought
"editable", "saved", and "persistent" might be relevant, but the Javadoc
doesn't describe what any of them do. None of them appear to do the
trick (though I didn't try them in combination.)
Bottom line: is there any way to get fillSubmissionBean() to leave a
property alone? I really don't want to ship this property out to the
user's web browser and back to the server. As a workaround I'm filling
in the remaining properties one at a time in my code, which works fine
but kind of defeats the purpose of having bean-based form submission.
-Steve
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