"ZipCode" is a US-centric way of looking at US Postal codes. A Zip Code validator able to assess the validity of non-US postal codes would be a "Postal Code Validator".
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski <nicho...@spoon.as>wrote: > What are your thoughts about adding this functionality to the > ZipCodeValidator instead of having it as a separate component? I have to > check against multiple countries, and it seems silly to have to load two > different components that do basically the same thing (except for locale). > Another option would be to add the US Zip validation ruleset into your > component and leave the ZipCodeValidator alone. > > -Nick > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com > >wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I've created a first pass at an mx style post code validator. It still > > needs some work. It can be found in my white board area here: > > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/flex/whiteboard/jmclean/validators/ > > > > It supports either a single postcode format or an array of postcode > > formats. Formats are defined as strings consisting of N,A,CC,- or space > > where is N is a number, A is a letter, CC is country code (optional) and > > "-" or space for formatting. eg "NNNN" is a 4 digit postcode. "NNNN AA" > is > > 4 digits, followed by a space followed by 2 letters. > > > > It doesn't validate for ranges of numbers or exact letters. I've > > considered a way of setting a call back that calls a user defined > function > > to do this. > > > > Would anyone like to see this added to the SDK at some point in the > future? > > > > doValidate is a static method which required the formats array and the > > country code to stored in static variables. It may be possible to add an > > extra optional parameter to doValidate to get around this. Can anyone > think > > of another way of doing it? The ZipCodeValidator gets around this by hard > > coding exact lengths and formats in the code but I don't thank that's > > viable for a more generic class like this. > > > > For contribution like this what should the namespace be? mx.validators or > > org.apache.flex.mx.validators or something else? > > > > Any interest in a similar spark version? > > > > Anyone want to help out by reviewing the code, writing more unit test (a > > set of test for UK style postcodes would be useful) or any other way > please > > do so. > > > > Thanks, > > Justin > > > > >
