I'd rather see frameworks understand that "" is not equivalent to
null :)
I know Oracle DB does not think that way but any decent human being
does.
On Jun 24, 2009, at 13:25, Alaa Mohsen wrote:
It was just a thought so that the developer doesn't have to handle
such cases himself.
regar
It was just a thought so that the developer doesn't have to handle such
cases himself.
regards
Alaa Nassef
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Hardy Ferentschik <
hibern...@ferentschik.de> wrote:
> If you want to allow the empty string you can start your regular expression
> with the 'empty' or ope
If you want to allow the empty string you can start your regular
expression with the 'empty' or operator '|', eg "|^.*foo.*$".
Now the string can be empty or anything with foo in it.
--Hardy
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:47:56 +0200, Alaa Mohsen
wrote:
Hello All,
I just realized that PatternVal
Hello All,
I just realized that PatternValidator checks if the String passed to it
is null or not before checking it's validity, but it doesn't check if the
String is empty. What if someone wants to put a regular expression
constraint on a non mandatory field, and the framework he uses sets th
