Re: Thoughts from ADO

Noel Grandin <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:33:43 +0200
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Franck Routier wrote:
>  
>
> While we are on new ideas, I'm missing a feature in current Simpleorm,
> related to data validation.
> Currently we can valide a field, or a record.
> But there is no easy way to validate coherence between different
> records.
> For example I can handle the fact that a field must be a date, or a date
> after 01/01/2000, with SValidator. I can check on the record level that
> the beginning date is before the end date of the record, with
> onValidateRecord(). But I have no way to check that two record won't
> have overlapping periods before committing... (well, no way native to
> Simpleorm).
>
>

I think there are some things you are just going to have to handle at a higher level, and this is one of them.
I've seen frameworks where this is possible, but the downside is that performance becomes very non-obvious, because the
framework has to query the database in order to perform cross-record validation.

On the other hand, you could always override doValidateRecord() and do your extra validation there?

-- Noel


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    Franck Routier wrote:
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            <p>While we are on new ideas, I'm missing a feature in
              current Simpleorm,<br>
              related to data validation.<br>
              Currently we can valide a field, or a record.<br>
              But there is no easy way to validate coherence between
              different<br>
              records.<br>
              For example I can handle the fact that a field must be a
              date, or a date<br>
              after 01/01/2000, with SValidator. I can check on the
              record level that<br>
              the beginning date is before the end date of the record,
              with<br>
              onValidateRecord(). But I have no way to check that two
              record won't<br>
              have overlapping periods before committing... (well, no
              way native to<br>
              Simpleorm).<br>
              <br>
            </p>
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    </blockquote>
    <br>
    I think there are some things you are just going to have to handle
    at a higher level, and this is one of them. <br>
    I've seen frameworks where this is possible, but the downside is
    that performance becomes very non-obvious, because the framework has
    to query the database in order to perform cross-record validation.<br>
    <br>
    On the other hand, you could always override doValidateRecord() and
    do your extra validation there?<br>
    <br>
    -- Noel<br>
    <br>
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