Re: Newbie question =)

Sebastien Bigaret <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I would advise you not to change anything in the validation logic.
> Even if nothing prevents you from doing this, there isn't much situation
> which requires modification of the objects graph in validation methods.
> To put it differently, i'd say that the validation logic is here to
> prevent any bug or unhandled situations to be able to corrupt objects /
> database invariants in any ways (just an advice, really, nothing in the
> framework would prevent you to change objects during the validation
> process)

However, in most cases you just cannot decide what to do if the
validation fails: suppose your validation logic fails because a person
has two default bank account, what should be done then? Randomly choose
one of them to be the default? Sounds awkward as well, doesnt it :))

-- Sébastien.



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