David, I was just commenting that it cannot be a substitute for the intake service, which applies to all forms. Your solution will be confined to form objects that have corresponding Peer objects.
Rajeev ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wynter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Turbine Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:37 AM Subject: RE: Basic validation of input. > Rajeev, > > It is only intended for form objects that have peer objects, which is all of > my form objects! > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rajeev Kaul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 15 May 2002 19:34 > To: Turbine Users List > Subject: Re: Basic validation of input. > > > This approach will only work for form fields that have corresponding > properties in peer objects. What will you do in cases where the form fields > do not belong to peer objects? > > Rajeev > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Wynter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Turbine-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:10 AM > Subject: Basic validation of input. > > > > Hi, > > > > I had intended to use Intake as my validation method for the dozen screens > > in my application. But looking at it there is a fair amount of work to > > implement it. Considering that I just want to cover the following > validation > > it seems overkill. > > For each attribute entered check the following: > > > > Is there a value entered for not null fields? > > Is the value trimmed? > > Does the String value entered convert to the data type for the column? > > Is the value longer than allowed by the column? > > Is there a value entered for a required foreign key? > > > > So I don't need the Regex mask capability provided by Intake and all of > the > > information for the above (except the trim) is available in the ColumnMap > > for each attribute. I could use the ***Peer class for each object to > > retrieve the MapBuilder, then use this to get the DatabaseMap then use > this > > to getTable to get the TableMap and finally use this to get the > ColumnMap[]. > > > > e.g. ColumnMap[] colMaps = > > > RwStreamPeer.getMapBuilder().getDatabaseMap().getTable(RwStreamPeer.TABLE_NA > > ME).getColumns(); > > > > Then a single function in a service like, .basicValidate(ColumnMap[] > > colMaps, ParameterParser parser) could validate regardless of the object > you > > are validating. > > > > Then use the ColumnMap to match by lowercase names of the parameters to > the > > column names and you can carry out the tests. > > > > For returning the error messages load up a HashMap with any error messages > > keyed on the name of the input field e.g. $name in > > #if ($errormsgstool.getValue($name)!= null) > > <p> $errormsgstool.getValue($name) </p> > > #end > > <input type="text" size="30" name="$name" value="$value"> > > > > Since this is generic the message cannot be specific to the entry field so > > proximity to the input field is required to get across the context of the > > error message. > > > > I haven't pursued this yet. Has anyone done something similar or have any > > comments on the approach? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > David Wynter > > roamware Ltd. > > (+44) (0) 208 922 7539 B. > > (+44) (0) 7879 605 706 M. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
