Ok I have a first cut done. elements can now have metadata like:
<input id="cname" name="name" class="{rules:{required:true,minlength:
2}, messages:{required:'Enter this!', minlength:'Way to short!'}}" />
Quick question though. Which do you prefer?
1)$("#Form").validate({meta:"rules", metaMessages:"messages"});
2)$("#Form").validate({meta:{rules:"rules", messages:"messages"}});
I like 2, but it changes the existing API.
How do you want the changes?
On May 14, 1:04 pm, Dane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the help on getting started. I'd already started wading
> through the source so you definitely saved me some time. I'm not
> totally comfortable with Jquery yet but I'm getting there :). I'll
> give this a go and see what happens. Should I just reply to this
> thread to contribute/ask questions? or is there a better way?
>
> On May 14, 12:07 pm, "Jörn Zaefferer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > It isn'T supported, yet. You could help getting it into the plugin by
> > trying to implement it yourself, and contributing it back.
>
> > To get started, take a look at the defaultMessage-method. Currently it
> > looks for custom messages specified via options, then for the title
> > attribute, then for default messages. You can access metadata via
> > $(element).metadata().
> > To be able to throw rules and messages together, you'd use the
> > meta-option to "namespace" rules, eg.
> > class="{rules:{required:true,email:true}, messages: {required:"yo",
> > email:"no"}", then $(...).validate({ meta: "rules" })
>
> > Hope this helps to get started.
>
> > Jörn
>
> > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Dane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I'm trying to build a web framework utilizing the great work thats
> > > already been done on the validation plugin. I'm trying to use metadata
> > > to specify my rules. I'm having a problem overriding the default
> > > messages for multiple rules via metadata. It appears as though I can
> > > only specify one generic message for all my rules on a given element
> > > using the title attribute.
>
> > > Is there a way use metadata to override error messages that I'm
> > > overlooking? If not can this be added? Additionally, do we have to be
> > > restricted to using the title attribute? Could we use custom
> > > attributes? It seems like a common scenario and is supported by the
> > > validate(option) method.
>
> > > Thanks for any direction/feedback on this!
>
> > > Keep up the great work!
> >> Dane
