maybe have FormComponentFeedbackBorders for the individual
components and then a global feedback panel to catch the general
ones (install a filter to ignore reporters that have feedback borders)
Carlos Pita-4 wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> suppose you have to implement some form input component that is
> composed from other simple FormComponents. These simple input fields
> will be ajax-validated individually, and they will be subject to some
> global (inter-field) validation too. An example could be three
> drop-downs for a date, with local validation requiring each field and
> global validation asking for a valid Gregorian calendar date. AFAIK
> there are nothing like nested forms in wicket, you have a form and
> then at the next level its FormComponents and that's all. So I tend to
> think of a static helper method that instantiates the individual form
> fields and registers them with the form. Maybe there must be some
> "synthetic" invisible component just to attach feedback from the date
> global-validation, which will be implemented as a form validator. For
> example:
>
> class MyForm extends Form {
>
> public MyForm(String id) {
> ....
> DateComponent.add(this, "birthDate");
> ....
> }
> }
>
> <select wicket:id="birthDate.day"/>
>
>
> <select wicket:id="birthDate.month"/>
>
>
> <select wicket:id="birthDate.year"/>
>
>
> <!-- dummy component -->
>
>
>
> There are two things in this approach that I don't particularly like:
>
> 1) Having a dummy component to attach date global-validation errors
> (notice that they are not the same as form errors).
>
> 2) The procedural nature of the solution, there is no real Date component.
>
> What do you think? Do you have a better alternative that is not too
> convolved?
>
> Best regards,
> Carlos
>
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