James, +1 is the right way to go. Let the user immedately know, what was wrong. Don't give the information part by part.
Marcel I definitely agree with both: - The validation process should first iterate through all fields and then, for each field, iterate through its scpecific validation rules. - The validation process can stop (for each field) at the first unvalidated rule, but it should not stop at the first unvalidated field ... > -----Original Message----- > From: James Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: jeudi 19 septembre 2002 19:41 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: VOTE: Behavior of Validator > > > As currently written, the Validator has what I consider a quirk. > > Suppose you have two fields, username and password. Username has > "depends=required" and password has "depends=required.notgod" > (where notgod > is a test that makes sure that the user didn't choose god as a > password). The following behavior occurs: > > username=blank, password=blank: two errors generated on "required" > username=blank, password=god: one error generated on "required" > username=george, password=god: one error genereated on "notgod" > > This is because the Validator won't look at notgod until *all* > fields pass > the "required" test. > > I think this is a broken behavior. It leads to web forms where the user > thinks that they've filled in all the fields correctly, but then get new > error messages they've never seen before. I'd like to correct > this before > Validator freezes for a release, but I want to make sure no one really > really thinks that the current behavior is somehow the right one. So > please vote: > > +1 = Change Validator so that this doesn't occur > 0 = I don't give a hoot > -1 = I really like the way it works now (please give a reason) > > I'm sending this both to Commons and Struts because both communities are > impacted by the change. > > James > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ________________________________________________________________ Etudiant: Wanadoo t'offre le Pack eXtense Haut Débit soit 150,92 euros d'économies ! Et pour 1 euro de plus, reçois le CD-ROM du jeu Dark Age of Camelot + 1 mois de jeu en réseau offert ! Clique ici : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/mail.etudiant -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
