Hi Carlos, 2012/9/24 Carlos Rovira <carlos.rov...@codeoscopic.com>
> Hi Franck, > > I think it would be great. I was in the way to make some > implementation some time ago since flex view validation is problematic > when you try to use MVC but I never get to far. In flex the problem is > that validation and view controls are dependent and it would be great > to have bean validation in order to validate data and have real > separation from the view. This brings the problem on how to show the > errors in controls to let the user now about a failed validation. I > suppose that is solved in GDS. > Yes, we have a specific component called FormValidator which displays errors in real-time, based on the user input. > So I think bean validation would be a great improvement in flex SDK > and annotations would make it more usable. > > For BigDecimal and others classes could be great as well, but I don't > have clear how could be donate to sdk...maybe it could go to an > extension package or something like that and get some externalization > base implementation... > An extension package is of course an option. Thanks for your quick feedback, Franck. 2012/9/24 Franck Wolff <franck.wo...@graniteds.org>: > > Hi All, > > > > We, at Granite Data Services <http://www.graniteds.org>, are considering > > contributing part of our Flex client code to this Apache project. Our > first > > thought is to contribute our Bean Validation (aka JSR-303) implementation > > in ActionScript3: this framework gives an easy and powerful way to > validate > > ActionScript beans based on constraint annotations (see documentation > > here< > http://www.graniteds.org/public/docs/2.3.2/docs/reference/en-US/html/graniteds.validation.html > >). > > This framework can be used standalone, with no specific dependency to > rest > > of the GraniteDS platform, but is usually best used together with Gas3 > (our > > code generation tool) which replicates Java entities annotated with > > constraint annotations in ActionScript3, with the same constraints. The > > validation process can then be executed on the Flex, replicating what > Java > > is doing on its part, and can display error messages on the fly, while > the > > user is filling out a Flex form. > > > > What do you think about such contribution? We could also contribute later > > our Flex implementation of the BigDecimal, BigInteger and Long classes > (see > > documentation here< > http://www.graniteds.org/public/docs/2.3.2/docs/reference/en-US/html/graniteds.bignumbers.html > >), > > but this implementation has a dependency on some externalization features > > specific to GraniteDS. > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Franck Wolff / William Draï > > Granite Data Services > > > > -- > Carlos Rovira > Director de Tecnología > M: +34 607 22 60 05 > F: +34 912 35 57 77 > CODEOSCOPIC S.A. > Avd. del General Perón, 32 > Planta 10, Puertas P-Q > 28020 Madrid > -- Franck Wolff Granite Data Services Inc. CEO & Founder
