Re: cvs commit: cocoon-2.1/src/blocks/forms/java/org/apache/cocoon/forms/formmodel Action.java AggregateField.java BooleanField.java Field.java Form.java Messages.java MultiValueField.java Output.java Repeater.java Union.java Upload.java

[Vadim Gritsenko <va...@reverycodes.com>]

Bruno Dumon wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 16:15, Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
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>>bruno@apache.org wrote:
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>>> Drop FormContext from validate method.
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>>May be this was already answered, but how, say, validator can perform 
>>City/State/Zip validation against zip database? Would it need this 
>>FormContext or it has access to something else?
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>FormContext only contains the request and the locale, so that wouldn't
>have helped much.
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>If you add validators to the form instance (ie calling
>widget.addValidator in the controller/flowscript code) you can make
>yourself that the validator has access to all it needs.
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>

Yep.


>For the "static" validators defined as part of the form definition, we
>could apply the Avalon lifecycle to them so they can get a
>ServiceManager.
>

This last one sounds good.

Thanks for explanation
Vadim