Hi Edward,
the problem is in conversion, not in validation. When a form value is
filled by the user, it is a plain string. Then it arrives to Cocoon,
that parse the string to convert it to the proper type, for example a
date. After that conversion has been performed successfully, then
validation is performed on the obtained converted value, for example the
Date object.
So, it is not possible to check the string value from a validator,
unless you are trying on a string field :)
You should be able to take the java source code of the date converter
from a recent 2.1.x version of Cocoon, a version that supports the
lenient attribute, and backport it to the 2.1.8 version.
Hope this helps,
Simone
Edward Elhauge wrote:
Hi,
I've run into a problem where my users want more detailed control over
Date field validation. In the version that we're running (2.1.8)
we don't have a "lenient" attribute for base="date" widgets.
So the user can type in "33/60/9z" as a date, which get converted into
"10/30/2011". Not what was expected.
What I'd like would be to a small:
<fd:validation> <fd:javascript>
...
</fd:javascript> </fd:validation>
section to throw an error in those cases.
Unfortunately this.value inside that javascript callback is already in a
Date format.
My question is:
How do I get access to the users original text input
within the fd:validation section?
If there is no way to get access to the raw text, do I need to write
my own validator to replace "FormattingDateConvertor" ?
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Simone Gianni CEO Semeru s.r.l. Apache Committer
http://www.simonegianni.it/
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