MVVM Complex form for which I want databinding active and do the validation only on button click

asked 2015-06-19 15:48:52 +0800

WilliamB
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updated 2015-06-19 17:35:08 +0800

I've a big form and a lot of dynamic settings in it.

For exemple when the user pick something in a combobox, I've to go fetch data in the database to fill a listbox. When the user type something in a text field, I've to add the item in a combobox etc ...

So I'm calling my VM quite a bit, from either Setters or Command. I want the validation to be only active when the user click the SAVE button at the end of the form.

And then I wanna display validation error on each fields, either format error or database constraint related error.

I've read http://books.zkoss.org/zk-mvvm-book/7.0/data_binding/validator.html but it turns out that in both Property Binding & Save Before Command approach, there is "Not save data to ViewModel".

I want my form to save to view model even if it's not ok, because i would like to do the validation only when the user Click, but still have access to the bean and not use a mid-layer build.

Maybe a way to do it, would be to bind it at the same time to my VM bean and to a mid-layer form bean?

Hoping I didn't make too much of a mess of this message and that someone can help me.

Regards,

EDIT: Kinda cheated and did :

   <grid form="@id('offreValidation') @load(vm.offer) @save(vm.offer, before='validate') 
        @validator('com.orange.octave.web.viewmodels.contrat.detail.offreentite.validator.OffreCreationValidator', offreValidation=vm.offer)">