[html-formfu] Correct date constraint?

[Octavian Rasnita]

From: "Carl Franks" <fireartist at gmail.com>
 On 5 February 2010 16:02, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does HTML::FormFu offer a way of using a constraint that disallows 
>> sending
>> invalid dates like February 30?
>
> HTML::FormFu::Constraint::DateTime should work fine for this.
>
> Carl


Hi,

I think that Date and DateTime fields should use by default the DateTime 
constraint, or any other constraint that assures that the chosen date is 
valid.

I have checked the DateTime constraint, (I want to use it with Date and 
DateTime fields) but it requires too much code.

In the DateTime fields, I use something like:

strftime %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:00

but for using the DateTime constraint, I should define this format a second 
time for each field, and use strptime instead of strftime.

I think the DateTime and Date fields should use by default the DateTime 
constraint because those fields should always send correct date values.

I put the following in the myapp.pl Catalyst configuration file which sets 
this constraint for all the DateTime elements, but it would be nice if it 
wouldn't be necessary:

'Controller::HTML::FormFu' => {
 constructor => {
  default_args => {
   elements => {
    DateTime => {
     constraints => [
      {
      type => 'DateTime',
      parser => {strptime => '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:00'},
      },
     ],
    },
   },
  },
 },
},

Thanks.

Octavian