[Catalyst] Re: Ajax, Jemplate, forms, rest & data validatio

Carl Vincent c.a.vincent at newcastle.ac.uk
Wed May 28 14:48:39 BST 2008


>-----Original Message-----
>From: J. Shirley [mailto:jshirley at gmail.com]
>Sent: 27 May 2008 15:46
>To: catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk
>Subject: [Catalyst] Re: Ajax, Jemplate, forms, rest & data validatio
>
>On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:03 AM, James. L <perlwle at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Henry Drinkwater
>> <henry.drinkwater[at]googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> On the validation note, I use Data::FormValidator in
>> conjunction with
>> a DBIx::Class ResultSet - still in the model, in that
>> it is outside of
>> the Catalyst scope. Easier to unit test this stuff,
>> too, since you
>> don't have to muck with a controller. Lots of other
>> folk use
>> FormBuilder or FormFu, so it is really just picking
>> what makes the
>> most sense to you.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> -J
>> ===================================================
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> i am using D::F in controller only then rely on the
>> database(sometimes little bit on model) to die on
>> unexpected data.
>>
>> I am interested in how you managed to use
>> Data::FormValidator in conjunction with a DBIx::Class
>> ResultSet.. do you still do form validation in
>> controller? how do you map the error from model to
>> webGUI?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> James.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>The basic idea is that you have a base schema class, rather than all
>of your schema classes doing:
>use base qw/DBIx::Class/;
>
>Instead, something like this (naming rather verbose, just to be
>clear):
>use base qw/MyApp::Base::Schema::Class/;
>
>In there, you assign the ResultSet.  Because of the order of
>operations in DBIC, the way to have a base schema class setup a custom
>ResultSet class is to run something after table.  In the easiest of
>ways (and not very pretty):
>
>package MyApp::Base::Schema::Class;
>
>use base 'DBIx::Class';
>
>sub table {
>    my $class = shift;
>    $class->next::method(@_);
>    # Automatically populate the resultset to include serialization.
>    $class->resultset_class('MyApp::ResultSet::Validate')
>        if $class->resultset_class eq 'DBIx::Class::ResultSet';
>}
>
>1;
>
>Now, you have a custom resultset class that gets loaded by default.
>Ideally, you'll not use this globally but name it like
>Class::WithValidate or something.
>
>Then inside of the resultset, just create a ->validate method that you
>can call.    A very basic validate method (that just returns the valid
>data, you could pass it onwards to a $self->create($data)):
>
>sub validate {
>    my ( $self, $data, $profile ) = @_;
>    my $results = Data::FormValidator->check($data, $profile);
>
>    if ( $results->has_invalid or $results->has_missing ) {
>        die $results;
>    }
>    return scalar $results->valid;
>}
>
>How you determine how to store your $profile is up to you, and there
>are way too many ways to do it.  If inside of Catalyst,
>__PACKAGE__->config->profiles->{create} seems reasonable enough.
>
>I'm curious what others on the list think of this.  I've never been
>pleased enough with it to bake it for public eyes, and it doesn't
>evolve fast enough for me to seek feedback.


Or you can use CLaco's DBIx::Class::Validation component in your DBIC
schemas to hook in a Data::Form::Validator (FormValidator::Simple is
also supported) profile to validate against on inserts and updates.

We use that method - getting the validation in at that level protects my
data from:
1) me - forgetting to validate at a higher level - sometimes I think I
know better...
2) MySQL - which can't be relied upon to throw an error when given duff
data - sometimes it thinks it knows better...

Cheers

Carl

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