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svn commit: r894787 - in /websites/production/tapestry/content:
cache/main.pageCache exploring-the-project.html
using-beaneditform-to-create-user-forms.html
Author: buildbot
Date: Sun Jan 19 22:20:55 2014
New Revision: 894787
Log:
Production update by buildbot for tapestry
Modified:
websites/production/tapestry/content/cache/main.pageCache
websites/production/tapestry/content/exploring-the-project.html
websites/production/tapestry/content/using-beaneditform-to-create-user-forms.html
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-</div></div><p>Make sure you save changes; then click the refresh link in the web browser:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-thumbnail" src="exploring-the-project.thumbs/app-live-reload.png" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/24188263/app-live-reload.png?version=2&modificationDate=1321974913000&api=v2"></p><div class="navmenu" style="float:right; width:30%; background:white; margin:3px; padding:3px">
+</div></div><p>Make sure you save changes; then click the refresh link in the web browser:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image" width="700" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/24188263/app-live-reload.png?version=2&modificationDate=1321974913000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/24188263/app-live-reload.png?version=2&modificationDate=1321974913000&api=v2"></p><div class="navmenu" style="float:right; width:30%; background:white; margin:3px; padding:3px">
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<p>If Live Class Reloading isn't working for you, check the Troubleshooting section at <a shape="rect" href="class-reloading.html" title="Class Reloading">Class Reloading</a>.</p>
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-</div><p>This is one of Tapestry's early <em>wow factor</em> features: changes to your component classes are picked up immediately (a feature we call Live Class Reloading). No restart. No re-deploy. Make the changes and see them <em>now</em>. Nothing should slow you down or get in the way of you getting your job done.</p><p>But ... what if you make a mistake? What if you got the name in the template wrong. Give it a try; in the template, change ${currentTime} to, say, ${currenTime}, and see what you get:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-thumbnail" src="exploring-the-project.thumbs/app-error-1.png" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/24188263/app-error-1.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291068475000&api=v2"></p><p>This is Tapestry's exception report page. It's quite detailed. It clearly identifies what Tapestry was doing, and relates the problem to a specific line in the template, which is shown in context. Tapestry always expands out the ent
ire stack of exceptions, because it is so common for exceptions to be thrown, caught, and re-thrown inside other exceptions. In fact, if we scroll down just a little bit, we see more detail about this exception, plus a little bit of help:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-thumbnail" src="exploring-the-project.thumbs/app-error-2.png" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/24188263/app-error-2.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291068475000&api=v2"></p><p>This is part of Tapestry's way: it not only spells out exactly what it was doing and what went wrong, but it even helps you find a solution; here it tells you the names of properties you could have used.</p><p>Tapestry displays the stack trace of the deepest exception, along with lots of details about the run-time environment: details about the current request, the HttpSession (if one exists), and even a detailed list of all JVM system properties. Scroll down to see all this information.</p> <di
v class="aui-message hint shadowed information-macro">
+</div><p>This is one of Tapestry's early <em>wow factor</em> features: changes to your component classes are picked up immediately (a feature we call Live Class Reloading). No restart. No re-deploy. Make the changes and see them <em>now</em>. Nothing should slow you down or get in the way of you getting your job done.</p><p>But ... what if you make a mistake? What if you got the name in the template wrong. Give it a try; in the template, change ${currentTime} to, say, ${currenTime}, and see what you get:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image" width="700" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/24188263/app-error-1.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291068475000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/24188263/app-error-1.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291068475000&api=v2"></p><p>This is Tapestry's exception report page. It's quite detailed. It clearly identifies what Tapestry was doing, and relates the problem to a specific
line in the template, which is shown in context. Tapestry always expands out the entire stack of exceptions, because it is so common for exceptions to be thrown, caught, and re-thrown inside other exceptions. In fact, if we scroll down just a little bit, we see more detail about this exception, plus a little bit of help:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image" width="700" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/24188263/app-error-2.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291068475000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/24188263/app-error-2.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291068475000&api=v2"></p><p>This is part of Tapestry's way: it not only spells out exactly what it was doing and what went wrong, but it even helps you find a solution; here it tells you the names of properties you could have used.</p><p>Tapestry displays the stack trace of the deepest exception, along with lots of details about the run-time environment: detail
s about the current request, the HttpSession (if one exists), and even a detailed list of all JVM system properties. Scroll down to see all this information.</p> <div class="aui-message hint shadowed information-macro">
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<p>This level of detail reflects that the application has been configured to run in <em>development mode</em> instead of <em>production mode</em>. In production mode, the exception report would simply be the top level exception message. However, most production applications go further and customize how Tapestry handles and reports exceptions.</p>
Modified: websites/production/tapestry/content/using-beaneditform-to-create-user-forms.html
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--- websites/production/tapestry/content/using-beaneditform-to-create-user-forms.html (original)
+++ websites/production/tapestry/content/using-beaneditform-to-create-user-forms.html Sun Jan 19 22:20:55 2014
@@ -86,23 +86,14 @@ import com.example.tutorial.data.Honorif
public class Address
{
public Honorific honorific;
-
public String firstName;
-
public String lastName;
-
public String street1;
-
public String street2;
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public String city;
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public String state;
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public String zip;
-
public String email;
-
public String phone;
}
]]></script>
@@ -137,7 +128,20 @@ public class CreateAddress
}
]]></script>
-</div></div><p>So ... why is the class named "CreateAddress" and not simply "Create"? Actually, we could have named it "Create", and the application would still work, but the longer <em>class</em> name is equally valid. Tapestry noticed the redundancy in the class name (com.example.tutorial.pages.<code><em>address</em></code>.Create<em>Address</em>) and just stripped out the redundant suffix</p><style type='text/css'>
+</div></div><p>So ... why is the class named "CreateAddress" and not simply "Create"? Actually, we could have named it "Create", and the application would still work, but the longer <em>class</em> name is equally valid. Tapestry noticed the redundancy in the class name (com.example.tutorial.pages.<code><em>address</em></code>.Create<em>Address</em>) and just stripped out the redundant suffix. <span style="line-height: 1.4285715;">Tapestry also checks for redundant prefixes. In addition, the long name, "address/CreateAddress" would also work.</span></p><p>Eventually, your application will probably have more entities: perhaps you'll have a "user/Create" page and a "payment/Create" page and an "account/Create" page. You <em>could</em> have a bunch of different classes all named Create spread across a number of different packages. That's legal Java, but it isn't ideal. You may find yourself accidentally editing the Java code for creating an Account when your really want to be editing th
e code for creating a Payment.</p><p>Tapestry is encouraging you to use a more descriptive name: Create<em>Address</em>, not just Create, but it isn't making you pay the cost (in terms of longer, uglier URLs). The URL to access the page will still be <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://localhost:8080/tutorial1/address/create" >http://localhost:8080/tutorial1/address/create</a>.</p><p>And remember, regardless of the name that Tapestry assigns to your page, the template file is named like the Java class itself: CreateAddress.tml.</p> <div class="aui-message hint shadowed information-macro">
+ <span class="aui-icon icon-hint">Icon</span>
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+ <p>Index pages work in folders as well. A class named com.example.tutorial.pages.address.AddressIndex would be given the name "address/Index". However, Tapestry has special rules for pages named "Index" and the rendered URL would be <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://localhost:8080/tutorial1/address/" >http://localhost:8080/tutorial1/address/</a>. In other words, you can place Index pages in any folder and Tapestry will build a short URL for that page ... and you <em>don't</em> have to keep naming the classes Index (it's confusing to have many classes with the same name, even across multiple packages); instead, you can name each index page after the package that contains it. Tapestry users a smart <em>convention</em> to keep it all straight and generate short, to the point URLs.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+<h1 id="UsingBeanEditFormToCreateUserForms-UsingtheBeanEditFormComponent">Using the BeanEditForm Component</h1><p>Time to start putting together the logic for this form. Tapestry has a specific component for client-side Forms: the <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/Form.html">Form</a> component, as well as components for form controls, such as <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/Checkbox.html">Checkbox</a> and <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/TextField.html">TextField</a>. We'll cover those in a bit more detail later .. instead, we're again going to let Tapestry do the heavy lifting for us, via the <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/coreli
b/components/BeanEditForm.html">BeanEditForm</a> component.</p><p>Add the following to the CreateAddress template (replacing the "coming soon ..." message):</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeHeader panelHeader pdl" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;"><b>CreateAddress.tml (partial)</b></div><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+<script class="theme: Default; brush: xml; gutter: false" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[ <t:beaneditform object="address"/>
+]]></script>
+</div></div><p>And match that up with a property in the CreateAddress class:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeHeader panelHeader pdl" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;"><b>CreateAddress.java (partial)</b></div><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+<script class="theme: Default; brush: java; gutter: false" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[ @Property
+ private Address address;
+]]></script>
+</div></div><p>When you refresh the page, you'll see the following:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image" width="700" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/create-address-initial.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291927518000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/create-address-initial.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291927518000&api=v2"></p><p>Tapestry's done quite a bit of work here. It has created a form that includes a field for each property. Further, its seen that the honorific property is an enumerated type, and presented that as a drop-down list.</p><p>In addition, Tapestry has converted the property names ("city", "email", "firstName") to user presentable labels ("City", "Email", "First Name"). In fact, these are <label> elements, so clicking a label with the mouse will move the input cursor into the corresponding field.</p><p>This is an awesome start; it's a presentable interface, quite
nice in fact for a few minute's work. But it's far from perfect; let's get started with some customizations.</p><h1 id="UsingBeanEditFormToCreateUserForms-ChangingFieldOrder">Changing Field Order</h1><p>The BeanEditForm must guess at the right order to present the fields; for public fields, they end up in alphabetical order</p><style type='text/css'>
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-<p>.</p><p> </p><p>Eventually, your application will probably have more entities: perhaps you'll have a "user/Create" page and a "payment/Create" page and an "account/Create" page. You <em>could</em> have a bunch of different classes all named Create spread across a number of different packages. That's legal Java, but it isn't ideal. You may find yourself accidentally editing the Java code for creating an Account when your really want to be editing the code for creating a Payment.</p><p>Tapestry is encouraging you to use a more descriptive name: Create<em>Address</em>, not just Create, but it isn't making you pay the cost (in terms of longer, uglier URLs). The URL to access the page will still be <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://localhost:8080/tutorial1/address/create" >http://localhost:8080/tutorial1/address/create</a>.</p><p>And remember, regardless of the name that Tapestry assigns to your page, the template file is named like the Java class itself: CreateA
ddress.tml.</p> <div class="aui-message hint shadowed information-macro">
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- <p>Index pages work in folders as well. A class named com.example.tutorial.pages.address.AddressIndex would be given the name "address/Index". However, Tapestry has special rules for pages named "Index" and the rendered URL would be <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://localhost:8080/tutorial1/address/" >http://localhost:8080/tutorial1/address/</a>. In other words, you can place Index pages in any folder and Tapestry will build a short URL for that page ... and you <em>don't</em> have to keep naming the classes Index (it's confusing to have many classes with the same name, even across multiple packages); instead, you can name each index page after the package that contains it. Tapestry users a smart <em>convention</em> to keep it all straight and generate short, to the point URLs.</p>
- </div>
- </div>
-<h1 id="UsingBeanEditFormToCreateUserForms-UsingtheBeanEditFormComponent">Using the BeanEditForm Component</h1><p>Time to start putting together the logic for this form. Tapestry has a specific component for client-side Forms: the <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/Form.html">Form</a> component, as well as components for form controls, such as <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/Checkbox.html">Checkbox</a> and <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/TextField.html">TextField</a>. We'll cover those in a bit more detail later .. instead, we're again going to let Tapestry do the heavy lifting for us, via the <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://tapestry.apache.org/current/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/coreli
b/components/BeanEditForm.html">BeanEditForm</a> component.</p><p>Add the following to the CreateAddress template (replacing the "coming soon ..." message):</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeHeader panelHeader pdl" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;"><b>CreateAddress.tml (partial)</b></div><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
-<script class="theme: Default; brush: xml; gutter: false" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[ <t:beaneditform object="address"/>
-]]></script>
-</div></div><p>And match that up with a property in the CreateAddress class:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeHeader panelHeader pdl" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;"><b>CreateAddress.java (partial)</b></div><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
-<script class="theme: Default; brush: java; gutter: false" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[ @Property
- private Address address;
-]]></script>
-</div></div><p>When you refresh the page, you'll see the following:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-thumbnail" src="using-beaneditform-to-create-user-forms.thumbs/create-address-initial.png" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/create-address-initial.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291927518000&api=v2"></p><p>Tapestry's done quite a bit of work here. It has created a form that includes a field for each property. Further, its seen that the honorific property is an enumerated type, and presented that as a drop-down list.</p><p>In addition, Tapestry has converted the property names ("city", "email", "firstName") to user presentable labels ("City", "Email", "First Name"). In fact, these are <label> elements, so clicking a label with the mouse will move the input cursor into the corresponding field.</p><p>This is an awesome start; it's a presentable interface, quite nice in fact for a few minute's work. But it's far from perfect;
let's get started with some customizations.</p><h1 id="UsingBeanEditFormToCreateUserForms-ChangingFieldOrder">Changing Field Order</h1><p>The BeanEditForm must guess at the right order to present the fields; for public fields, they end up in alphabetical order</p>
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<p>.</p><p> </p><p>A better order for these fields is the order in which they are defined in the Address class:</p><ul><li>honorific</li><li>firstName</li><li>lastName</li><li>street1</li><li>street2</li><li>city</li><li>state</li><li>zip</li><li>email</li><li>phone</li></ul><p>We can accomplish this by using the <code>reorder</code> parameter of the BeanEditForm component, which is a comma separated list of property (or public field) names:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeHeader panelHeader pdl" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;"><b>CreateAddress.tml (partial)</b></div><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<script class="theme: Default; brush: xml; gutter: false" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[ <t:beaneditform object="address"
reorder="honorific,firstName,lastName,street1,street2,city,state,zip,email,phone" />
]]></script>
-</div></div><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-thumbnail" src="using-beaneditform-to-create-user-forms.thumbs/create-address-reordered.png" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/create-address-reordered.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291928238000&api=v2"></p><h3 id="UsingBeanEditFormToCreateUserForms-Customizinglabels">Customizing labels</h3><p>Tapestry makes it pretty easy to customize the labels used on the fields. It's just a matter of creating a <em>message catalog</em> for the page.</p><p>In Tapestry, every page and component may have its own message catalog. This is a standard Java properties file, and it is named the same as the page or component class, with a ".properties" extension. A message catalog consists of a series of lines, each line is a message key and a message value separated with an equals sign.</p><p>All it takes is to create a message entry with a particular name: the name of the property suffixed with "-label". As
elsewhere, Tapestry is forgiving of case.</p><div class="preformatted panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="preformattedHeader panelHeader" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;"><b>src/main/resources/com/example/tutorial/pages/address/CreateAddress.properties</b></div><div class="preformattedContent panelContent">
+</div></div><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image" width="700" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/create-address-reordered.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291928238000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/create-address-reordered.png?version=1&modificationDate=1291928238000&api=v2"></p><h3 id="UsingBeanEditFormToCreateUserForms-Customizinglabels">Customizing labels</h3><p>Tapestry makes it pretty easy to customize the labels used on the fields. It's just a matter of creating a <em>message catalog</em> for the page.</p><p>In Tapestry, every page and component may have its own message catalog. This is a standard Java properties file, and it is named the same as the page or component class, with a ".properties" extension. A message catalog consists of a series of lines, each line is a message key and a message value separated with an equals sign.</p><p>All it takes is to create a message entry with a pa
rticular name: the name of the property suffixed with "-label". As elsewhere, Tapestry is forgiving of case.</p><div class="preformatted panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="preformattedHeader panelHeader" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;"><b>src/main/resources/com/example/tutorial/pages/address/CreateAddress.properties</b></div><div class="preformattedContent panelContent">
<pre>street1-label=Street 1
street2-label=Street 2
email-label=E-Mail
zip-label=Zip Code
phone-label=Phone Number</pre>
-</div></div><p>Since this is a <em>new</em> file (and not a change to an existing file), you may have to restart Jetty to force Tapestry to pick up the change.</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-content-image-border" height="446" width="760" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v3.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v3.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2"><br clear="none"> Create Address form with field labels corrected</p><p>We can also customize the options in the drop down list. All we have to do is add some more entries to the message catalog matching the enum names to the desired labels. Update CreateAddress.properties and add:</p><div class="preformatted panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="preformattedContent panelContent">
+</div></div><p>Since this is a <em>new</em> file (and not a change to an existing file), you may have to restart Jetty to force Tapestry to pick up the change.</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-content-image-border" width="700" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v3.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v3.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2"><br clear="none"> Create Address form with field labels corrected</p><p>We can also customize the options in the drop down list. All we have to do is add some more entries to the message catalog matching the enum names to the desired labels. Update CreateAddress.properties and add:</p><div class="preformatted panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="preformattedContent panelContent">
<pre>MR=Mr.
MRS=Mrs.
DR=Dr.
@@ -246,7 +231,7 @@ DR=Dr.
</div></div><p>Notice that we don't have to include an option for MISS, because that is converted to "Miss" anyway. You might just want to include it for sake of consistency ... the point is, each option label is searched for separately.</p><p>Lastly, the default label on the submit button is "Create/Update" (BeanEditForm doesn't know how it is being used). Let's change that to "Create Address".</p><p>That button is a component within the BeanEditForm component. It's not a property, so we can't just put a message into the message catalog, the way we can with the fields. Fortunately, the BeanEditForm component includes a parameter expressly for re-labeling the button. Simply change the CreateAddress component template:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<script class="theme: Default; brush: xml; gutter: false" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[ <t:beaneditform submitlabel="Create Address" object="address"/>
]]></script>
-</div></div><p>The default for the submitlabel parameter is "Create/Update", but here we're overriding that default to a specific value.</p><p>The final result shows the reformatting and relabeling:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-content-image-border" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v5.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v5.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2"><br clear="none"> Create Address form with proper labels</p><p>Before continuing on to validation, a side note about message catalogs. Message catalogs are not just for re-labeling fields and options; we'll see in later chapters how message catalogs are used in the context of localization and internationalization.</p><p>Instead of putting the label for the submit button directly inside the template, we're going to provide a reference to the lab
el; the actual label will go in the message catalog.</p><p>In Tapestry, when binding a parameter, the value you provide may include a prefix. The prefix guides Tapestry in how to interpret the rest of the the parameter value ... is it the name of a property? The id of a component? A message key? Most fields have a default prefix, usually "prop:", that is used when you fail to provide one (this helps to make the templates as terse as possible).</p><p>Here we want to reference a message from the catalog, so we use the "message:" prefix:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><p>The default for the submitlabel parameter is "Create/Update", but here we're overriding that default to a specific value.</p><p>The final result shows the reformatting and relabeling:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-content-image-border" width="700" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v5.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v5.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2"><br clear="none"> Create Address form with proper labels</p><p>Before continuing on to validation, a side note about message catalogs. Message catalogs are not just for re-labeling fields and options; we'll see in later chapters how message catalogs are used in the context of localization and internationalization.</p><p>Instead of putting the label for the submit button directly inside the template, we're going to provide a referenc
e to the label; the actual label will go in the message catalog.</p><p>In Tapestry, when binding a parameter, the value you provide may include a prefix. The prefix guides Tapestry in how to interpret the rest of the the parameter value ... is it the name of a property? The id of a component? A message key? Most fields have a default prefix, usually "prop:", that is used when you fail to provide one (this helps to make the templates as terse as possible).</p><p>Here we want to reference a message from the catalog, so we use the "message:" prefix:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<script class="theme: Default; brush: xml; gutter: false" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[ <t:beaneditform object="address" submitlabel="message:submit-label"
reorder="honorific,firstName,lastName,street1,street2,city,state,zip,email,phone" />
]]></script>
@@ -267,10 +252,10 @@ DR=Dr.
<script class="theme: Default; brush: java; gutter: false" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[ @Validate("required,regexp=^\\d{5}(-\\d{4})?$")
public String zip;
]]></script>
-</div></div><p>Let's give it a try; restart the application and enter an "abc" for the zip code.</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-content-image-border" height="482" width="760" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v7.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v7.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2"><br clear="none"> Regexp validation</p><p>This is what you'll see after typing "abc" and tabbing out of the field, then tabbing back in. It's a little hard to capture all the animation effects in a still photo.</p><p>In any case, that's the right validation behavior, but it's the wrong message. Your users are not going to know or care about regular expressions.</p><p>Fortunately, it's easy to customize validation messages. All we need to know is the name of the property ("zip") and the name of the validator ("regexp").
We can then put an entry into the CreateAddress message catalog:</p><div class="preformatted panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="preformattedContent panelContent">
+</div></div><p>Let's give it a try; restart the application and enter an "abc" for the zip code.</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-content-image-border" width="700" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v7.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v7.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2"><br clear="none"> Regexp validation</p><p>This is what you'll see after typing "abc" and tabbing out of the field, then tabbing back in. It's a little hard to capture all the animation effects in a still photo.</p><p>In any case, that's the right validation behavior, but it's the wrong message. Your users are not going to know or care about regular expressions.</p><p>Fortunately, it's easy to customize validation messages. All we need to know is the name of the property ("zip") and the name of the validator ("regexp"). We can then p
ut an entry into the CreateAddress message catalog:</p><div class="preformatted panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="preformattedContent panelContent">
<pre>zip-regexp-message=Zip Codes are five or nine digits. Example: 02134 or 90125-1655.
</pre>
-</div></div><p>Refresh the page and submit again:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-content-image-border" height="482" width="760" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v8.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v8.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2"></p><p>Regexp validation with corrected message</p><p>This trick isn't limited to just the regexp validator, it works equally well with <em>any</em> validator.</p><p>Let's go one step further. Turns out, we can move the regexp pattern to the message catalog as well. If you only provide the name of the validator in the @Validate annotation, Tapestry will search the containing page's message catalog of the constraint value, as well as the validation message. The constraint value for the regexp validator is the regular expression to match against.</p><div class="code p
anel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><p>Refresh the page and submit again:</p><p><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-content-image-border" width="700" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v8.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2" data-image-src="/confluence/download/attachments/23340431/address-v8.png?version=1&modificationDate=1286782418000&api=v2"></p><p>Regexp validation with corrected message</p><p>This trick isn't limited to just the regexp validator, it works equally well with <em>any</em> validator.</p><p>Let's go one step further. Turns out, we can move the regexp pattern to the message catalog as well. If you only provide the name of the validator in the @Validate annotation, Tapestry will search the containing page's message catalog of the constraint value, as well as the validation message. The constraint value for the regexp validator is the regular expression to match against.</p><div class="code panel pdl" sty
le="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
<script class="theme: Default; brush: java; gutter: false" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[ @Validate("required,regexp")
public String zip;
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@@ -278,19 +263,7 @@ DR=Dr.
<pre>zip-regexp=^\\d{5}(-\\d{4})?$
zip-regexp-message=Zip Codes are five or nine digits. Example: 02134 or 90125-1655.
</pre>
-</div></div><p>After a restart you'll see the ... the same behavior. But when we start creating more complicated regular expressions, it'll be much, much nicer to put them in the message catalog rather than inside the annotation value. And inside the message catalog, you can change and tweak the regular expressions without having to restart the application each time.</p><p>We could go a bit further here, adding more regular expression validation for phone numbers and e-mail addresses. We're also far from done in terms of further customizations of the BeanEditForm component.</p><p>By now you are likely curious about what happens <em>after</em> the form submits successfully (without validation errors), so that's what we'll focus on next.</p><hr><p> </p><table class="Footnotes" style="width: 100%; border:none;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="This table contains one or more notes for references made elsewhere on the page."><caption class="accessibility">Footnotes</caption
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