Re: [CForms] Validation of non-required fields

[Sylvain Wallez]

Bruno Dumon wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:47, Ugo Cei wrote:
 

Dear Cocooners,
am I wrong or the behaviour of validation in 2.2 changed so that it's 
now practically impossible to validate optional fields?

                <fd:field id="email" required="false">
                        <fd:label>E-mail</fd:label>
                        <fd:datatype base="string">
                                <fd:validation>
                                        <fd:email/>
                                </fd:validation>
                        </fd:datatype>
                </fd:field>
If the field is not filled-in, you get a not-so-nice NPE under 
2.2.0-dev. What I want is to have the validation be performed only if 
the value is not null, and this seems to be impossible now, whereas it 
was possible (IIRC) in 2.1.5.
   

I noticed that too.
It will work if you put the fd:validation tag outside of the
fd:datatype, which is the new way of doing things. fd:validation inside
fd:datatype needs to be deprecated (or temporarily fixed until it is
deprecated).
 

Yup. I plan to work on CForms in the coming weeks so that we can achieve 
a stable state, and this is on the todo list.

Sylvain
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