[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Gotchas (so far)

[tony.herstell@gmail.com]

Another Gotcha....

if you have a 

  | @Length(min = 12, max = 30, message = "sim must between 12 and 30 characters long")
  | 
on a Database Object that is NOT mandatory (like a post code) that is mapped to a view component of type string.

If you leave the string empty in the view you get a "" back as apposed to a null (which seems helpful as it reduces a lot of null pointer exceptions).

However, I had to write code to convert the "" back to null just before persisting it to stop the validator failing...


  | 		// Need to set "" to null for validator to allow a blank field through.
  | 		subscriber.setCreationDate(new Date());
  | 		if (subscriber.getXxx().equals("")) {
  | 			ZZZZZZZ.setXxx(null);
  | 		}
  | 		if (subscriber.getYyy().equals("")) {
  | 			ZZZZZZZ.setYyy(null);
  | 		}
  | 		em.persist(ZZZZZZ);
  | 


I could have extended the validator, but this seemed wrong as a string of "" should fail !!!
The better solution was to pass null to the validator.

humm...


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