On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 11:24, Upayavira wrote: > Joerg Heinicke wrote: > > > On 28.05.2004 01:13, Benoit Deshaies wrote: > > > >> re: adding form-level validation error messageS. > >> > >> This is a feature I would use as well. In our applications, we often > >> display the list of errors at the top of the form and then each field > >> in error is styled in red and the label gets an *. > >> > >> This is something Struts offers *wink* *wink*. See <html:errors> at > >> http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/struts-html.html#errors > > > > > > That's what fi:validation-errors is about. > > Great. But how do you set that using Java code?
Not. It only collects the validation errors of other widgets, in order to show them together at one location. And it does that by scanning over the XML, not over the original widget tree. This makes that if you would forget to include a widget, you wouldn't see its error either. > E.g. wanting to set it > to say "Your user/pass was incorrect"? Validation errors can only be set on widgets implementing the ValidationErrorAware interface, see the table on http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/forms/validation.html This doesn't help you for your case where you need to show a validation error that is global to the form as a whole. Alternatively, there is the fd:messages widget. You can add messages to it by calling addMessage() on it. I'm not sure if this is a good solution, since those messages are not specifically recognized as being validation errors, and so this wouldn't work together with fi:validation-errors. Maybe the best would be to allow adding validation errors (multiple ones) on the form itself. fi:validation-errors would then better be replaced with a ft:validation-errors (which can crawl the widget tree), since otherwise it wouldn't find the errors attached to the form. WDYT? -- Bruno Dumon http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]