Re: Form Validation with multi-lingual fields ?

Does this mechanism work when in edition, the contributor switch the input
language by clicking of the language flags in the editing pop-up ?



2005/10/3, [email protected] <[email protected]>:
>
>
> The *Jahia Field Input Validation Guide*<http://www.jahia.org/jahia/webdav/site/jahia_org/shared/documentation/template/fieldInputValidationGuide.pdf>,
> which is currently linked on the Documentation page is unfortunately an
> older version. You should read the corrected text in Chapter 17 of the *Jahia
> 4.x Template Developer Guide*<http://www.jahia.org/jahia/webdav/site/jahia_org/shared/documentation/template/Draft_Jahia_Template_Developer_Guide_v0.31.pdf>,
> which is also linked on the Documentation page.
>
> On page 108 you can read the following:
>
> >> The validator only accesses the getter-methods of those fields, for
> which you will define validation rules. The field values should be taken
> from the ContainerFacadeInterface object and for that you should use the
> inherited methods getJahiaField(String) or
> getJahiaMultiLanguageField(String). Which method to use *depends on the
> validation rule*, which should be applied. Most of the *standard
> validators expect the field value as a String*, but there are *Jahia
> specific multilingual validations*, which need to get access to all
> language entries of a field and for those fields you should return a
> JahiaMltHelper object.
>
> If you want to apply both (standard validators and Jahia multilingual
> validators) to the same field you should provide two different
> getter-methods. In this special case, the getter method returning the String
> must match the field name property, while for the getter method returning
> the JahiaMltHelper you can choose any property name.<<
>
> So if you use the standard "validwhen" validation rule, your bean method
> should return a String, even if the field-type is SMALLTEXT and the value is
> multilingual.
>
> Just use:
> public String getImageAlt()
> {
> return getJahiaField("ImageAlt");
> }
>
> This way your "validwhen" rule will check the value of ImageAlt for the
> current language somebody is working on.
>
> Greetings,
> Benjamin
>
> Sébastien Landeau <[email protected]> wrote on 30.09.200517:05:38:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > We have a container with 2 fields :
>
> > An Image Field (type FieldTypes.FILE)
> > An ImageAlt Field (type FieldTypes.SMALLTEXT)
> >
> > We want to check the following validation rule : "The ImageAlt
> > field is mandatory only if the Image field is not null"
> >
> > Code of the JavaBean associated to the ImageAlt field :
> >
> > public JahiaMltHelper getImageAlt()
> > {
> > return getJahiaMultiLanguageField("ImageAlt");
> > }
> >
> >
> > Here is an extract of the Jakarta validation Xml file :
> > < field property = "imageAlt" depends = "validwhen" >
> > < msg name = "validwhen" key = "errors.required" />
> > < arg0 key = "ImageAlt" resource = "false" />
> > < var >
> > < var-name > test </ var-name >
> > < var-value > ((image == null) or (*this* != null)) </ var-value >
> > </ var >
> > </ field >
> > This code doesn't work.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > If the ImageAlt definition is changed to a FieldTypes.
> > SMALLTEXT_SHARED_LANG type, the rule works fine with the
> > following modification in the validation JavaBean :
> > public String getImageAlt()
> > {
> > return getJahiaField("ImageAlt");
> > }
> >
> > In this special case all works fine. But we need multi lingual fields
> !!!
> >
> >
> > Thank's for your help.
> >
> >
> > Best regards...
>