Hello all, In general the plugin is great and I have a working solution using a global variable to keep track of invalids because of this problem in the library.
Short description, in the validator method that I added, I am calling showErrors because the message needs to be dynamic. I call showErrors with the dynamic string and then return the same string from the validator method. However, right after that runs, while the screen is showing the error, calls to validate().element do not return any errors. Further background: This is an internal application used for captuing some barcode information. We have written the application to keep focus in a field until it validates, we do this by checking the validity of a field on the blur event. I am using autocomplete to move to next field when they scan. What I am seeing is that when the field fails validation and the screen is showing the error, the validity check passes which causes the code in the blur event to allow focus to move to the next screen. Some of the rules are simple and have static messages like required and minimum length and they all work correctly. I have two different rules which wrap a call to Ajax synchronously. I do not think I can use the "remote" method because the remote returns before getting back the error which causes the blur handler to allow focus to move to next field. One of the ajax wrapping rules, which has a static error message, works fine. The other rule, which needs to get the error message from the server, is the one showing this incorrect behavior. I can get this to work by breaking this call up into individual calls for every possible error message, but then I have multiple calls to the server when I only really need one that returns the appropriate error message. ======= As an aside I noticed that if I use a function instead of a string for the message, the function is only called once, so I cannot work around the error above by just returning true/false from the validator and computing the message in the message function.
