On 7/18/07, Peter Rawlins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a form containing various input fields followed by a panelTabbed, and lastly an OK commandButton. The panelTabbed contains some showDetailItem children, which have various input fields, some of which have required=true. The users may visit the tabs as they see fit, and then press the OK button, and I need each showDetailItem child to be valid as a precondition for the button action. However if a showDetailItem is not disclosed it will not validate its children. So if the user doesn't happen to visit every tab, the unvisited tabs may not be valid, but the validation phase passes, and the commandButton's action method is invoked. This behaviour seems wrong to me, as I would have expected that all rendered=true fields inside a form should be valid before the form is considered valid. Does anyone know of a way to force the display of the invalid tabs, with their errors? I've attempted a workaround by adding code to temporarily disclose the other tabs in turn, and manually call processValidators() on them, but this doesn't work because the input fields of the undisclosed tabs have no submitted data, and claim to be valid (which also seems strange). I've also considered adding code to replace submitted values of null with "", but this seems like a kludge too far.
There's two questions here: (1) Is there a way to validate tabs that have been disclosed, but aren't disclosed right now? (2) Is there a way to validate tabs that have never been disclosed. For 1, the answer is yes: call processValidators() and processUpdateModel() on the children of the showDetailItem. For 2, the answer is no, you can't. And you can't set the submitted value to "", because that'll blow up for many renderers. What you need here is bean-level validation, not component-level validation. Alternatively, you might disable the button until all tabs have been visited. -- Adam
Looking through the mailing lists, I found an old thread which looked similar, but no solution: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=905706󝇪 I'm using trinidad-1.0.1.
