Regex/star caracter not working with rich:validator

[jonathan.man]

Regex/star caracter not working with rich:validator

Hi everyone.

I'm trying to get rich:validator working with the f:validateRegex on the "blur" event.

I get the following regex working fine : [1-9]+

Whenever I put letters in the input field, the "blur" event show an error message.

However I have a problem with the "*" character.

The error message doesn't appear on the "blur" event with letters in the input field.

It works fine on the submit though.

Here is my xhtml :

<h:body>

     <h:form>

          <rich:panel header="Person" style="height: 500px;">

               <h:panelGrid columns="2">

                    <h:outputText value="Name :" />

                    <h:inputText />

                    <h:outputText value="Surname :" />

                    <h:inputText />

                    <h:outputText value="Id :" />

                    <h:inputText validatorMessage="Error on Id">

                         <f:validateRegex pattern="[1-9]*" />

                         <rich:validator event="blur"/>

                    </h:inputText>

                    <h:outputText value="Phone :" />

                    <h:inputText validatorMessage="Error on Phone">

                         <f:validateRegex pattern="[1-9]+" />

                         <rich:validator event="blur"/>

                    </h:inputText>

                    <h:outputText value="Email :" />

                    <h:inputText />

                    <h:commandButton value="test"/>

               </h:panelGrid>

          </rich:panel>

          <rich:messages/>

     </h:form>

</h:body>

I'm pretty confident that I could get some other regex to do whatever i'd like todo, but I'd like to know :

Am I missing something here? Is my regex ok (allowing only numbers)?

Or is it some king of a bug (the error message appear correctly on the button submit, but not on the blur event).

I'm new to Richfaces so I wouldn't know.

Here is my setup :

JDK7

Tomcat7

JSF 2.1.3 (mojarra)

Richfaces 4.1.0 Final

On another note, is there a way to format code snippets on the forums?

[campos]

Hello, Jonathan

I'm not able to test this in a JSF 2 + richfaces 4.x enviroment but I have some tips to you try regarding regex

try change your regular expression to

<f:validateRegex pattern="([1-9]*)"> <!-- put parentesis envolving the expression -->

the other option is

<f:validateRegex pattern="([\\d]*)"> <!-- if the regex use posix pattern it should work \d is digits only -->

an another one is

<f:validateRegex pattern="([1-9]{1,})"> <!-- it allow only number between 1 and 9 at least with 1 character -->

Try this options and see what happens

Jorge Campos

EDIT: forgot to mention about the other question

Yes, there is. Just click in insert button on editor and choose the language that you want to highlight the sintax