[html-formfu] Validating unique names

[Andreas Marienborg]

On May 14, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Ton Voon wrote:

> Hi!
>
> We've just starting playing with FormFu with new Catalyst  
> application and am impressed with how it works. However, one thing  
> which I find hard is how to define a field as unique across all the  
> existing rows.
>
> For instance, we have a list of hosts and we need to ensure that the  
> host name given in the form is unique. Obviously if the host is  
> being edited and the name is the same, then the validator should pass.
>
> It looks like a validator callback is the best way to do that, but I  
> can't see how to integrate this with DBIx::Class. How do others do  
> this?

We do this by setting something in the form stash before processing,  
then the validator can reach this trough the $form->stash method (I  
think). This might only work if you implement it as a constraint or  
validator class, not as a validator or constraint callback (too long  
since I worked with formfu :/)

Anyway, once you have the object beeing worked on, you can check that  
the ID or whatever is the same, and return "AOK" then

hope that made some sense


- andreas