validation

asp mvc validation specific to controllers action ?

Can the built in ASP MVC validation be made to behave differently for different actions of a same controller ? For example I have a user controller and it has actions like create, edit and other actions. So in model user the attribute Username is being validated for its uniqueness. If there is an user present with the same username, it t...

JQuery Validation Plugin: valid() returns false for non-required fields

The valid() function states: "Checks whether the selected form is valid or whether all selected elements are valid." Which seems to imply we can test for a group of controls using a selector (we're testing controls on a asp.net form) e.g. $('div[id$=pnlBillingInfo] .Field input').valid() This works if all fields are required. Howeve...

contact form validation problem (Validation is bypassed on send button)

I am using livevalidation script on my contact form.But i dont know what is the problem whenever i click submitt or send button. It just only checks the dropdown selection and other fields go empty and form is validated. I checked every example on livevalidation site but no help. Mine is not working.... It dont check the presense functio...

ASP.NET MVC2 Strange Validation Problem with Regex (DataAnnotations)

I've got my validation wired up through my Service layer, and my Birthdate property looks like this. <DisplayName("birthdate")> _ <RegularExpression("^\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}$", ErrorMessage:="Birthdate is not in the correct format.")> _ <DisplayFormat(ApplyFormatInEditMode:=True, ConvertEmptyStringToNull:=True, DataFormatString...

How to check if phone number entered by user includes country code?

Hi Is there an easy way to check whether a phone number entered by the user includes country code and to validate that the number is correct? I don't use any specific formats, the number itself must be only digits, no ('s, -'s and the like. Is such validation possible without asking user for a country? The trick is that I want to work w...

How to validate a correct domain name and sub domain in php

How to remove www and validate a valid domain name. Valid Domain domain.com subdomain.domain.com sub-domain.domain.com Invalid Domain www.domain.com www.subdomain.domain.com http://www.domain.com/ http://www.subdomain.com/ www.domain.com/folder/ How the code? $domain ='www.domain.com/folder/'; if() { // validate here } ...

ASP.NET MVC - Stop Html.TextBoxFor adding a dot to the Name attribute

Hi all, I'm fairly new to ASP.NET MVC and I've got a problem with Html.TextBoxFor() - it's giving the rendered input's name attribute a dot. <%= Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Box.Name, new { id= "txtName" }) %> renders the following HTML: <input type="text" value="" name="Box.Name" id="txtName"> I'm using the jQuery Validation plugin for ...

Strange Behavior of Invalid postback or callback argument. Event validation is enabled using <pages enableEventValidation...

I dont get the error when my development database is active The production database gives the error, the only difference is DATA !!! How possibly can this happen ? Invalid postback or callback argument. Event validation is enabled using in configuration or <%@ Page EnableEventValidation="true" %> in a page. For security ...

backslash in regex in xsd with xjc (ant) and jaxb validation

Hi, I have the following regex type in my xsd file: <xsd:simpleType name="Host"> <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string"> <xsd:pattern value="\b(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\b"> </x...

jQuery, how do I indicate AT LEAST one checkbox in a group is required

First let me thank all of you for your amazing efforts and help thus far. Now to the question. I have five checkboxes and at least one of the five needs to be checked to validate as required. I have seen a few methods of how to do this but I can't seem to make any of them work. Solve One Solve Two Now I am using both the validate pl...

Validation empty fields in MVVM

Hi, I have a XAML with about 100 controls. All of them are bound to class Student. I can validate such pool like Age, or Name, but how to validate controls,which user not even touch ? For example for field Address. Address couldn't be null, but user forgot about filling this control. ...

How do I remove javascript validation from my eclipse project ?

I am using eclipse on my project and while messing around with my eclipse settings, I turned on Javascript support. Now eclipse complains that JQuery library has errors in it and is not letting me compile the project. Does anyone know how to turn javascript validation off? ...

JSF: Validation for Special characters

hi,all I want to apply validation for Special characters like (,/'#~@[]}{+_)(*&^%$£"!\|<>) using the jsf validator. i have implemented the validator for number but now i want to make validator for Special characters. value.toString().trim().matches(); What will be the regular expression inside the matches() method in java class? i w...

Beginner XML Schema: element with Attribute + Type

Hi. Lets take a look at my test .xsd: <!-- lot of stuff... --> <xsd:element name="root"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element ref="target:child"/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> <xsd:element name="child"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:attribute name="childAtt...

asp:CustomValidator inside an update panel - Error message displayed before data is entered when ValidateEmptyText=true

Hello, I have a question regarding a custom validator in my page. The custom validator is located inside an update panel and this update panel is inside another upadate panel. The OnServerValidate fires and everything is fine. The problem is with ValidateEmptyText attribute. The error message is displayed as and when the user clicks on ...

When a form doesn't post to the page it's on, what's the best way to pass the error state back?

If I have a form that's on page http://foo.com/get, but posts to http://foo.com/post, what's the best way to handle displaying validation errors? I want to redirect the user back to the first page. How can I stash the form state (including error messages), so that on the next request following the redirect to http://foo.com/get I can g...

How to check if a string is a valid Windows directory/folder path?

Hello, I trying to check if the user-inputted string is a valid install destination, then check if it exists, and create it if not. My problem is with validating that the destination string is formatted properly. I am currently using IO.Directory.Exists( String path ) and works fine except when the user did not format the string proper...

change error messages after form validation in Magento

how can i change the error message Magento throws after it validates the form? thanks ...

.Net schema validation does not detect nilled elements

Hi, I want to validate the xml requests received in my WCF webservice. I created business classes by converting the xsd's to code with Xsd2Code.exe (Xsd2Code@Codeplex). Q: Why does the validator not fire when Element BrancheInfo is null? Validation functions: /// <summary> /// If a servicerequest enters our domain, we have to...

SpringMVC validation : No property 'commandClass' found

I'm trying to implement validation in a springmvc app, I followed the example described at http://maestric.com/doc/java/spring/form_validation When I run the app, I get the following error : org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'beanNameUrlHandlerMapping' defined in ServletCon...