Lets say I have couple of filters in my deployment descriptor and each request to the app has to pass through those. There is form with a formbean attached to it. Once I fill the form and click submit, when does the html parameters in the form are binded to the form bean? Before the request is passed through the filters or after passing thorugh the filters?
The reason I am asking is.. I have a form with 20 fields. Once I click submit, 17 values are being binded to the bean properly but 3 values are missing by the team request reaches validate method. I am absolutely clueless has to where the values are missing. I tried to print an enumeration of all the request parameters in validate method and those three fields are there in request object. AFAIK, There is no issue with those three elements name because the app works perfecly in my local IDE but brakes up in test env which makes it all the more difficult to pin-point the issue :(.
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I built two custom components using built-in CQ components. The components' JSP's, along with some custom javascript, have a line like below in order to leverage the built-in components (and their formatting, labels, etc.).
<cq:include path="." resourceType="foundation/components/form/dropdown" />
I have one each of my custom dropdown components on a form. I can mark field A and field B as both being required in their respective components' editor dialog. I can provide required messages so that when either field is blank and the form is submitted, I get a message that the fields are required (with my custom messages). However, what I really want to do is hide or disable field B based on the value supplied in field A. I'm handling this manually via jQuery. However, this of course presents a problem on validation. I want field B to be NOT required when it is hidden/disabled and for it to be required when it is enabled/visible. Since the showing/hiding is done client-side, the server-side validation has know knowledge of the change and still expect a value to be provided for field B.
I'm been trying to poke around in the CQ Widgets API to find if there is something I can do on the client side to set/unset the required property so that when the form gets posted it is handled correctly. I'm guessing that there isn't since the validation seems to be happening on post instead of client-side.
Any ideas/thoughts/options?
It turns out that the link from my comment gave me the idea that I can have custom server-side validation for my form, I just wasn't sure how to connect it to the field. It turns out that all I had to do was create a servervalidation.jsp file in my "B" component. CQ will see the servervalidation.jsp and automatically invoke it for my custom component.
I was then able to examine the submitted value of field "A" (by getting the parameter from the request object) and doing some other custom logic for my needs.
I was then able to optionally do this:
FieldDescription field = FieldHelper.getConstraintFieldDescription(slingRequest);
FieldHelper.checkRequired(slingRequest, field);
I am sending over a series of array values from a posted form to an MVC3 Controller. I was hoping the default modelbinder would be able to parse this but I'm having some difficulty with it.
The array is in the following format:
order[0].[type]=some value.
I think this is the reason the model binder is not parsing my values because I'm not getting anything populated in my model.
What would be another way to handle this?
Probably need to post more of your code so I can see what you are doing exactly. However saying this you need to pass the model to the view/partial view on the response you are trying to retrieve on the post request.
If not you will have to iterate through the Form Collection that will be returned and the Actions Methods type e.g. ActionMethodName(FormCollection form), one issue is name versus id its the name of the Kendo UI control that is used to get the value not the id.
1As far as I remember the right format was:
orders[0].OrderID=13;
orders[0].Name="test";
orders[1].OrderID=15;
orders[1].Name="again test";
The indexing should start from 0 and increase by 1.
Check this out: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/10/23/model-binding-to-a-list.aspx
My form (Html.BeginForm) was submitting well, i added some records over the period of one month using this form.
Then i did some cleanup (i don't remember those cleanups :( ) and tested the form after some time and now it is not submitting with a date value.
I mean, there are some date fields associated with master and child models, if child's date fields are filled (no matter parent's date is filled or not), the form does not get submitted and if these are empty then it does provided this is the first attempt i.e. if i attempt first with filled dates and then with empty dates, submitting does not work. I have two validation summaries with excludePropertyErrors true and false, no error is shown.
I had custom date format, dd-MMM-yyyy, and respective unobtrusive validator as jQuery.validator.methods["date"]. The behavior is same after removing these on both IE and Chrome.
However, a sample form submitting to the same controller's action on the same view with a sample model depicting the same structure works fine !!!
How to troubleshooting this??
Seems to me that the model binder is working correctly for your expected params, but that specific form is not passing in the values correctly (while your test form does).
These are the things your should try:
Use the browser's built in network logger and see what your POST looks like
Check the cAsE and spellnig of your variable names on the form (they should match your params/POCO on the action signature)
Hope this helps some.
Thanks BiffBaffBoff for compare the two. I figured out the problem by enhancing the sample model, controller and view, adding fields and validations one by one and finally got the issue. It was my authorization action attribute which was missing on one of the Remote validation action for date, my controller requires authorization.
Thank you all who tried to help me out, without even looking at single line of code.
ASP.net MVC 3 out of the box forms authentication
when certain users on certain browsers try and authenticate they get the following error
Server Error in '/MVC' Application.
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The parameters dictionary contains a null entry for parameter 'rememberMe' of
non-nullable type 'System.Boolean' for method 'System.Web.Mvc.ActionResult
LogOn(System.String,
System.String, Boolean, System.String)' in 'RipsMVC.Controllers.AccountController'. An
optional parameter must be a reference type, a nullable type, or be declared as an
optional parameter.
Parameter name: parameters
the problem is its not all the time but whenever i turn on fiddler2 it automatically works so i have no clue what the root cause is .
I don't think it related to fiddler, maybe you need to make rememberMe with [DefaultValue(false)] or make it a bool?.
Anyway, you can setup a breakpoint and check the request body (using Request.Forms) to see the difference with/without fiddler.
Is remember me a checkbox on the form? HTML says that checkbox values are only submitted if they are checked. So if it is unchecked, you need to send a hidden field with a false value. Using MVC #Html.CheckBox should do this automatically. However, if your HTML just renders out a single checkbox, then it might not be submitted to get a false value on the server.
I would like to validate both single field and multiple field data from a CakePHP form.
The single field validation should be done on blur from each field while the multiple field validation should be done on submitting the form.
I would like to use the $validate property declared in the Model for validating data and I would like to display the errors near each field (single field validation) and on top of the form (for multiple field validation).
My main goal is to achieve this the most "caky" way (if there is one for validating data with jQuery). I couldn't find any useful advice out there and I'm asking you for some help to get this going.
One of my concerns is how shall I pass data from the form to jQuery and then to the action that does the validation and also how shall I return and display the errors, if there are any.
Thank you in advance!
I'd suggest first making sure everything works without jQuery, then use the jQuery Form plugin to submit your forms via AJAX. If you include the RequestHandler component in your AppController, you should find that your controllers distinguish automatically between AJAX and synchronous requests.
OK, so I coded my own solution to this, but I am still waiting for a more "caky" approach.
I made two generic jQuery functions, one for single field validation and one for multiple field validation. The function should grab the data from the specified form and send it to the form's action via AJAX, to a specially created controller method which will attempt to validate data and output an AJAX response ("" for validation has passed and errors for errors in validation). Then, the result is checked in the jQuery function and the default form behaviour is triggered only if the validation has passed. Otherwise, display the errors and return false; to prevent default submission.