>>> MI> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:15:14 +0200, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy(a)hibernate.org&gt; said: HF> On Jun 28, 2012, at 6:59 AM, Michael Isvy wrote: MI> I was discussing this topic with Emmanuel Bernard by email and MI> Emmanuel suggested that we move this conversation to this MI> mailing-list, so here I am :). MI> The idea would be to propose a javascript export of the bean MI> validation rules. HF> What exactly do you want to export? An JavaScript implementation of HF> the default constraints? Do you have already some concrete ideas? When I saw this idea right here, moments ago, my first thought was to specify a JSON format for validation rules and require the existence of some tool that you could point at a bunch of java code that happens to have JSR-303 annotations on it and the tool would generate that JSON. The JSON format would be designed such that the fidelity of the rules would be mostly maintained such that a corresponding piece of code on the client side could slurp it down and carry out the rules.

Just to add my 2c: I guess it should be rather straight-forward to export the standard constraints (@Size etc.) from a given model, e.g. using the meta data API which we already have. These info could be transferred to the client (e.g. using JSON) where a dedicated JS engine could validate the constraints according to the BV rules. Another story are custom constraints which contain custom Java validation code. One idea here could be to offer an API for implementing custom constraints in JS. Or one follows GWT's example and transforms Java to JS (I think there is support for client-side validation of BV constraints based on that approach built into GWT).

--Gunnar 2012/6/29 Hardy Ferentschik <hardy(a)hibernate.org&gt;: > > On Jun 28, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Edward Burns wrote: > >>>>> MI> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:15:14 +0200, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy(a)hibernate.org&gt; said: >> >> HF> On Jun 28, 2012, at 6:59 AM, Michael Isvy wrote: >> >> MI> I was discussing this topic with Emmanuel Bernard by email and >> MI> Emmanuel suggested that we move this conversation to this >> MI> mailing-list, so here I am :). >> >> MI> The idea would be to propose a javascript export of the bean >> MI> validation rules. >> >> HF> What exactly do you want to export? An JavaScript implementation of >> HF> the default constraints? Do you have already some concrete ideas? >> >> When I saw this idea right here, moments ago, my first thought was to >> specify a JSON format for validation rules and require the existence of >> some tool that you could point at a bunch of java code that happens to >> have JSR-303 annotations on it and the tool would generate that JSON. >> The JSON format would be designed such that the fidelity of the rules >> would be mostly maintained such that a corresponding piece of code on >> the client side could slurp it down and carry out the rules. > > I am not sure I am following you. JSON is really just a transport protocol for some data, right? > Where is the actual validation logic? Or is this what you want to generate via the tool? > > The best thing right now would be some prototype or pseudo code/workflow. > > --Hardy > > > _______________________________________________ > beanvalidation-dev mailing list > beanvalidation-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/beanvalidation-dev _______________________________________________ beanvalidation-dev mailing list beanvalidation-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/beanvalidation-dev