RichFaces 4 final - rich:graphValidator - disable some validators

[yirco]

Hi,

I tried to disable validation of some properties which are within rich:graphValidator on a page using <f:validateBean disabled="true"/> and <rich:validator disabled="true"/>. However, rich:graphValidator always validates all properties annotated with validator. Is this intended behaviour? Is it possible to force some exceptions?

For example when a user profile is created Password and Confirm Password are mandatory and must be the same. But when modifying the profile the fields are not mandatory though if entered they must be the same.

Thank you.

[boy18nj]

yes, this is intended behaviour. Use immediate attribute with true value or why cannot you comment out the annotations in your validation bean.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

maybe could look into validation groups in order to resolve that.. need to check.

[yirco]

OK, thanks for info. I think this is a general situation. There is a bean with validation constraints. On some xhtml pages it is necessary to validate the properties - typically during creation. On other pages it is not necessary to validate some of the properties - typically during update when the data is fetched from the database and it is not necessary to fill in e.g. a new password. Of course a solution could be to bind the input to a different bean without validation annotation.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

yup.. groups should actually works for that case.

[lfryc]

yirco, try to use Validating Groups [1] together with rich:graphValidator @groups attribute.

[1] http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/validator/4.2/reference/en-US/html/validator-usingvalidator.html#validator-usingvalidator-validationgroups

[yirco]

Thanks for tip Lukas.

[bengao]

The validator should only work for editable fields. Using @groups is just ad hoc work around.