Re: validating through decorators?

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Luca Lesinigo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello there.
> I discovered validation and FormEncode while playing with TurboGears. Now
> I'm working on a little project of my own without TurboGears and I'd like to
> validate user-entered input (direct calls to my module or command line
> arguments, no web here) so I obviously turned to FormEncode.
> I'd like to validate data with decorators in front of my module methods,
> since it's so easy and elegant, but as far as I can understand the @validate
> decorator was part of TG and there's nothing like that in FE?
> So the standard way to use validators with FE alone would be to call them
> from inside my methods?
> I looked and searched through the documentation on the website but couldn't
> find anything, and any other search though google always gives links to TG
> or other web frameworks...

FormEncode is too low level to have an @validate decorator.  The right
way to build it depends on the framework or application.  Pylons has
an @validate decorator but it has proven too monolithic for many
cases, so we're looking at splitting it up into three parts.  This
illustrates the general problem of what should a @validate decorator
do, and that it's application-dependant.

-- 
Mike Orr <[email protected]>

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