bump...please help :)
> On Jan 30, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Jason Clemons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm hoping someone can give me a suggestion to save my skin. When I was > brand new to xwiki I quickly created an application for "ticketing" using > AppWithinMinutes because it seemed like the easiest way for a newbie to > create an application. In doing so I created a form which had several > controls on it (e.g.. around 20 or so). In order to maintain business logic > I wrote EXTENSIVE JavaScript which enforces business rules and prevents a > save (basically cancelling the postback through JavaScript) if they aren't > met. Admittedly this isn't that great of a solution as now I'm having > problems with JavaScript failures (mostly with other libraries being loaded > with xwiki which prevents my JavaScript from running) which then allow the > pages to be saved despite validation failures. > > > > What I'm hoping is that there is some way to "shim" some server side code in > using an event listener, or some sort of "before save" event in velocity or > groovy that can evaluate the submitted page and prevent a save if the > business logic rules are broken. > > > > I don't really have the luxury of re-writing or refactoring the solution > I've written because it's in production at this point and works 95% of the > time, but I definitely need to do more in relation to validation since > broken rules cause downstream impacts to other applications relying on clean > data. > > > > So, any help is GREATLY appreciated. I have seen this > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Creating+a+form+with+valid > ation+and+tooltips and reviewed it, but I can't really figure out how I > would use it with an existing page or with AppWithinMinutes. > > > > Also, I already have an event listener configured which does some stuff that > I might be able to use for this purpose.. but I think those events > (DocumentCreatedEvent() and DocumentUpdatedEvent()) happens AFTER the save > and I haven't really been able to find a way to "block" the save if it does > happen before anyway.. > > > > I would need to invoke validation on save and update of documents too.. I'm > hoping there might be some way of adding code to the AppWithinMinutes > generated page that can do some post save validation and stop the save if it > fails. > > > > So help !!! :) > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
