I would not be in favor of adding any particular data validation framework to JavaFX. Data validation comes in all kinds of different shapes and sizes, which makes it a good fit for (opinionated) third-party libraries. However, I fully agree with John that JavaFX should provide more APIs that can only realistically be implemented in FX. I've proposed a "significant interaction" API, which is crucial for many data validation scenarios: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2023-March/039327.html
On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 12:50 PM Dirk Lemmermann <dlemmerm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I updated the validation framework ValidatorFX today in our project to the > latest release and I really like it a lot. It is a small compact API and > works with any observable as opposed to the validation support provided by > ControlsFX. > > Using it made me wonder whether it would make sense to bundle it or something > like it directly with JavaFX. Developers often mention missing validation > support as a drawback of using JavaFX. Adding this would take one item off > from the list of arguments against using JavaFX. > > Many UI frameworks do have built-in validation support, e.g. Vaadin [0], > Angular, [1], or QT [2] > > What do you think? > > —Dirk > > [0] https://vaadin.com/docs/latest/binding-data/components-binder-validation > [1] https://angular.io/guide/form-validation > [2] https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtquick-input-textinput.html >
