Having JS sanitize for the backend is somewhat dubious, I'd not go
there, but you probably don't want to discuss that.
Anyway, a validation method has access to the validate element, so you
could as well write a method that just sanitizes, nothing else.
Combine that with a strict validation method, ala:
rules: {
ssnfield: {
required: true
ssncleaner: true,
ssn: ssn
}
}
No change to required needed. ssncleaner would always return true, and
change the input value; ssn would just validate a strict ssn.
A very simple and general sanitizer would just trim whitespace - the
plugin did that in earlier versions, but that wasn't desired in
general:
$.validator.addMethod("trim", function(value, element) {
element.value = $.trim(value);
return true;
});
That seems to be quite flexible to me.
Jörn
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Brett Ritter<swift...@swiftone.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jörn
> Zaefferer<joern.zaeffe...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> You could start by writing custom methods for each of these input
>> types, and where possible, delegate to the existing methods:
>> http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/Validator/addMethod
>
> If I'm following you, you're saying to have validation that accepts
> the "loose" input and considers them all "valid". That doesn't help
> me sanitize for the backend though.
> On submission, that Phone number should come across as the "proper"
> format. This also complicates the validation methods considerably.
>
> Or am I misunderstanding you?
>
> --
> Brett Ritter / SwiftOne
> swift...@swiftone.org
>
