Heh. Regular Expressions aren't for everyone - I happen to work w/ two
engineers who live and die by them.
In your bean setter for the date, I'd make sure no exceptions could be
thrown, or handle them - the code I took over from an engineer we had
that left had this issue and it took me almost a week to track down what
was going on between the validator and his code.
-adam
Scott Van Wart wrote:
Adam Gordon wrote:
IIOC, the only way you can do this with the stock validator is to use
"mask"
rather than "date" as the validator. Then, you can use a regex to
dictate
your mask. I'll warn you though, if you use a regular expression
it's going
to be VERY long because it will also need to validate that the date
entered
is valid. Additionally, the stock date validator accepts dates like
30 FEB
YYYY and just rolls it to the appropriate March date. Here's the
REGEX we
use (note that the regex is all on one line with no spaces:
<var>
<var-name>mask</var-name>
<var-value>^(((0?[1-9]|1[012])/(0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])|(0?[13456789]|1[012])/(2
9|30)|(0?[13578]|1[02])/31)/(20)((0[6-9])|(10))|0?2/29/((20)(0[48])))$</var-
value>
</var>
Alternatively, you can override the validate method in your
ValidatorForm
and do it yourself - which given your requirements, sounds like the
easier
of the two options.
Holy lipton that's nuts. I think I'll see what's behind door number 3:
public void setDate( String date )
{
this.date = translateDate( date ); // where translateDate inserts the
slashes if necessary
}
So I can use the "date" validator with no problems, and when the
client submits the form, they get back a slash-separated date in the
input field.
Thanks for the help :)
- Scott
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