THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
From Ralf Ebert:
I just changed some of my forms to show form validation results
without messages (I was fed of writing these property files). I just
want form fields with validation errors getting a special css class
(for eye catching formatting) and a general message like "check the
marked fields". I got that working in a general way, just thought I
should tell you about this use case and how I got that working
because I think it's a quite common technique and Wicket could
support it out of the box...
I think the fact that the Validators know about messages currently is
not the greatest approach because validation doesn't depend on
messages in general. Maybe validation and reacting on validation
errors could be separated a bit more.
First step: no more required messages
Ok, at first I got rid of the need to supply a message for each
form field:
getSettings().addStringResourceLoader(new IStringResourceLoader() {
public String loadStringResource(Component component, String key, Locale locale, String style)
Unknown macro: { if (key.endsWith("Validator")) return "Please enter a valid value for "+component.getId()+"!"; return null; }
});
Second step: CSS style validation feedback
Second thing: A form class that adds a AttributeModifier to all
form components:
public class HighlightForm extends Form {
private final static AttributeModifier highlightAttributeModifier =
new AttributeModifier("class", true, new AbstractReadOnlyModel() {
public Object getObject(Component component)
Unknown macro: { if (component.hasErrorMessage()) return "error"; return null; }
});
@Override
protected void onBeginRequest() {
visitFormComponents(new FormComponent.IVisitor() {
public void formComponent(FormComponent formComponent)
Unknown macro: { formComponent.add(highlightAttributeModifier); }
});
}
public HighlightForm(String id, IModel model)
Unknown macro: { super(id, model); }
public HighlightForm(String id)
Unknown macro: { super(id); }
}
Third step: specialized feedback markup container
Third thing, a feedback markup container that is shown only when
there was a validation error (message can be specified in the markup
this way)
public class SimpleFeedbackPanel extends WebMarkupContainer
{
/**
- @see wicket.Component#Component(String)
*/
public SimpleFeedbackPanel(final String id)Unknown macro: { super(id); setModel(new FeedbackMessagesModel()); }
@Override
public boolean isVisible()
Unknown macro: { return !((List) getModelObject()).isEmpty(); }
}