6 Replies Latest reply on Feb 18, 2008 9:25 AM by boevink

    Bypassing validations when using EntityQuery with example ob

    stu2
    stu2 Jan 19, 2008 7:08 PM

      I'm using the EntityQuery framework class, and it's working fine. As per the seam docs I'm using the Example object to hold query parameters. It works very well.

      BUT, Seam is running the validations on the example object, validation fails, and the search can't proceed. While the entity validations are appropriate for persisting the entity (name must be at least 3 chars for instance), they don't apply to this use case.

      I'm not using s:validate or s:validateAll, which I thought was what triggered this behavior. Any suggestions? Is this how it is supposed to be?

      Thanks,

      Stu

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        • 1. Re: Bypassing validations when using EntityQuery with exampl
          pmuir
          pmuir Jan 20, 2008 7:41 AM (in response to stu2)

           

          I'm not using s:validate or s:validateAll, which I thought was what triggered this behavior. Any suggestions? Is this how it is supposed to be?


          No, its not. Validation is triggered in two places with Seam. (1) s:validate(All), (2) by hibernate when persisting an entity.

          Are you sure you don't have any validators being applied e.g. in s:decorate templates?

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          • 2. Re: Bypassing validations when using EntityQuery with exampl
            boevink
            boevink Feb 13, 2008 6:30 AM (in response to stu2)

            I've exactly the same problem.
            The default display decorator is used as generated by seam-gen.
            A userLsit (entityQuery) is also generated by seam-gen.

            I would like to search for a user by e-mail address, but validation is performed (must be a well-formed email address) since there exists an @Email annotation on this attribute within the entity class.

            How to solve this?

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            • 3. Re: Bypassing validations when using EntityQuery with exampl
              stu2
              stu2 Feb 13, 2008 1:50 PM (in response to stu2)

              Pete was exactly right in my case. I was using the edit.xhtml template that did validation. For search fields you shouldn't use your edit template.

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              • 4. Re: Bypassing validations when using EntityQuery with exampl
                boevink
                boevink Feb 15, 2008 3:28 AM (in response to stu2)

                Strange because I am using the display template....

                I'm using the templates and views as generated by seam-gen and can't get it working....

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                • 5. Re: Bypassing validations when using EntityQuery with exampl
                  stu2
                  stu2 Feb 15, 2008 11:11 AM (in response to stu2)

                  Hmm, that is odd. Can you post the relevant portions of your xhtml and also your template?

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                  • 6. Re: Bypassing validations when using EntityQuery with exampl
                    boevink
                    boevink Feb 18, 2008 9:25 AM (in response to stu2)

                    UserList.xhtml as generated:

                    <!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">


<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
 xmlns:a="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
 xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
 template="/layout/template.xhtml">

<ui:define name="body">

 <h:messages globalOnly="true" styleClass="message" id="globalMessages"/>

 <h:form id="userSearch" styleClass="edit">

 <rich:simpleTogglePanel label="User search parameters" switchType="ajax">

 <s:decorate template="/layout/display.xhtml">
 <ui:define name="label">username</ui:define>
 <h:inputText id="username" value="#{userList.user.username}"/>
 </s:decorate>

 <s:decorate template="/layout/display.xhtml">
 <ui:define name="label">email</ui:define>
 <h:inputText id="email" value="#{userList.user.email}"/>
 </s:decorate>

 </rich:simpleTogglePanel>

 <div class="actionButtons">
 <h:commandButton id="search" value="Search" action="/system/UserList.xhtml"/>
 </div>

 </h:form>

<------SNIP------>



                    template (template.xhtml): 
                    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib">
<head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
 <title>MyTitle</title>
 <link href="#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/stylesheet/theme.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body>
 <div class="header">
 <ui:include src="hmenu.xhtml">
 <ui:param name="projectName" value="MyProject"/>
 </ui:include>
 </div>
 <div class="menu">
 <ui:include src="vmenu.xhtml"/>
 </div>
 <div class="content">
 <ui:insert name="body"/>
 </div>

 <div class="footer">
 Powered by <a href="http://jboss.com/products/seam">Seam</a>.
 Generated by seam-gen.
 </div>

</body>
</html>



                    Decoration (display.xhtml): 
                    <ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib">

 <div class="prop">
 <span class="name">
 <ui:insert name="label"/>
 </span>
 <span class="value">
 <ui:insert/>
 </span>
 </div>

</ui:composition>


                    I'm totally stuck, so I'm glad you want to take a look at it.....

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