How about this?
meta: default
class="{required:true,minlength:2,messages:{required:'Enter
this!',minlength:'Way to short'}}"
meta: "validation"
class="{validation:{required:true,minlength:2,messages:{required:'Enter
this!',minlength:'Way to short'}}}"
No need to change the meta-option that way. The code reading the
messages just checks for a messages-property within the metadata.
Avoiding the conflict between a method "messages" and those actual
messages should be easy enough.
Contributions are welcome in any format, a ticket on dev.jquery.com
with a diff attached is the preferred way.
Jörn
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Dane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
