Skipping validation for ajax requests

[straubp]

Hi all,

I have a form with some fields for entering a location (name, street, zip, ...) and a button to save it.

Next to the form I want to show a list of suggested locations based on the text in the fileds as the user enters it.

I use <a4j:support event="onkeyup" reRender="suggestions"/> in all input fields for this.

For saving the location (using the save button) some of the fields are required and may also have some validators on them.

With this, updating the suggestion list isn't wotking any more. That's because validation fails and the model isn't updated.

Is there a way to do what I want to do? Maybe by skipping validation somehow, or copy the fileds by JS into a hidden form, which doesn't have any validators on them (But how would I do that?)?

Thanks for your help

Phil

[ilya_shaikovsky]

use ajaxSingle attribute of support.

[straubp]

Thank you, I will try this.

But I think there will still be a problem:

Let's say I fill the required city field with "New York". I would get get suggestions for locations in this city. Now I delete the city field because I want to get suggestions for any city. I think this could fail because city is required and I send an empty field.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

then you could mark suggestion" request as immediate. (ajaxSingle will not be needed in this case)

[straubp]

But then the model backing the fields wouldn't be updated and I couldn't determine what the user typed (for finding suggestions).

[ilya_shaikovsky]

sorry.. sure.. but if you need to update the model and make a choise depending on new value.. seems there is no place for required for this field :)

[straubp]

The suggestion list is just a suggestion list. :-) The user still can fill out the form normaly and klick save to save the location. So for saving I need validation, for updatating the suggestion list I can not have any. Of cause I could put all the validation into the save method, but that doesn't seem very right.