Contributing Validators

Here we create a Validator and make it available to the whole application by name.

The validator ensures a String field contains letters only.

Its name is letters and its class is Letters.
We made it available to the whole application by contributing it to the FieldValidatorSource service - see AppModule source below.
: (required, maxLength=10, letters only)
: (required, maxLength=10, letters only)
It includes a client-side validator in validators.js. However, you must add it to each page that needs it, which we've done with @Import in the page class.

References: Forms and Validation, Form, How To Add Validators, Defining Tapestry IoC Services, JavaScript.

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ContributingValidators.tml


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<!-- We need a doctype to allow us to use special characters like &nbsp; 
     We use a "strict" DTD to make IE follow the alignment rules. -->
     
<html xmlns:t="http://tapestry.apache.org/schema/tapestry_5_3.xsd">
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="${context:css/examples/examples.css}"/>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Contributing Validators</h1>
    
    Here we create a Validator and make it available to the whole application by name.<br/><br/>

    The validator ensures a String field contains letters only.<br/><br/>
    
    Its name is <em>letters</em> and its class is <em>Letters</em>. <br/>
    We made it available to the whole application by contributing it to the <em>FieldValidatorSource</em> service - see AppModule source below.

    <div class="eg">
        <form t:type="form" t:id="inputs">
            <t:errors/>
            <table>
                <tr>
                    <td><t:label for="firstName"/>:</td>
                    <td><input t:type="TextField" t:id="firstName" t:validate="required, maxlength=10, letters" size="10"/></td>
                    <td>${firstName}</td>
                    <td>(required, maxLength=10, letters only)</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td><t:label for="lastName"/>:</td>
                    <td><input t:type="TextField" t:id="lastName" t:validate="required, maxLength=10, letters" size="10"/></td>
                    <td>${lastName}</td>
                    <td>(required, maxLength=10, letters only)</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td></td>
                    <td><input type="submit" value="Display"/></td>
                    <td></td>
                    <td></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </form>
    </div>
    
    It includes a client-side validator in <em>validators.js</em>. 
    However, you must add it to each page that needs it, which we've done with <em>@Import</em> in the page class.<br/><br/>

    References: 
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/forms-and-validation.html">Forms and Validation</a>,
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3.7/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/Form.html">Form</a>, 
    <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5HowToAddValidators">How To Add Validators</a>, 
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/defining-tapestry-ioc-services.html">Defining Tapestry IoC Services</a>, 
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/javascript.html">JavaScript</a>.<br/><br/>
    
    <a t:type="pagelink" t:page="Index" href="#">Home</a><br/><br/>

    <t:sourcecodedisplay src="/web/src/main/java/jumpstart/web/pages/examples/input/ContributingValidators.tml"/>
    <t:sourcecodedisplay src="/web/src/main/java/jumpstart/web/pages/examples/input/ContributingValidators.java"/>
    <t:sourcecodedisplay src="/web/src/main/java/jumpstart/web/css/examples/examples.css"/>
    <t:sourcecodedisplay src="/web/src/main/java/jumpstart/web/validators/Letters.java"/>
    <t:sourcecodedisplay src="/web/src/main/java/jumpstart/web/validators/ValidationMessages.properties"/>
    <t:sourcecodedisplay src="/web/src/main/java/jumpstart/web/js/letters.js"/>
    <t:sourcecodedisplay src="/web/src/main/java/jumpstart/web/services/AppModule.java"/>
</body>
</html>

ContributingValidators.java


package jumpstart.web.pages.examples.input;

import org.apache.tapestry5.PersistenceConstants;
import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.Import;
import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.Persist;
import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.Property;

// The @Import tells Tapestry to put a link to the file in the head of the page so that the browser will pull it in. 
@Import(library = "context:js/letters.js")
public class ContributingValidators {

    // Screen fields

    @Property
    @Persist(PersistenceConstants.FLASH)
    private String firstName;

    @Property
    @Persist(PersistenceConstants.FLASH)
    private String lastName;

}

examples.css


body            { font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; color: #333; line-height: 17px; }
h1              { font-size: 26px; line-height: 20px; } /* For IE 7 */
form            { margin: 0; }                  

.eg             { margin: 20px 0; padding: 20px; color: #888; 
                    border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 4px; -webkit-border-radius: 4px; -mox-border-radius: 4px; }

a               { text-decoration: none; color: #3D69B6; }
a:hover         { text-decoration: underline; }

/* For BeanDisplay */
.eg dl          { margin: 0; color: #333; }
.eg dl.t-beandisplay dd.id  { display: inline; margin-left: 0px; }  /* IE 7 hack */

Letters.java


package jumpstart.web.validators;

import org.apache.tapestry5.Field;
import org.apache.tapestry5.MarkupWriter;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ValidationException;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.MessageFormatter;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.FormSupport;
import org.apache.tapestry5.validator.AbstractValidator;

/**
 * A validator that enforces that a string contains alphabetic letters only.
 */
public class Letters extends AbstractValidator<Void, String> {

    public Letters() {
        super(null, String.class, "validate-letters");
    }

    /**
     * Adds client-side validation by writing javascript into the page as it is rendered.
     */
    @Override
    public void render(Field field, Void constraintValue, MessageFormatter formatter, MarkupWriter writer,
            FormSupport formSupport) {
        formSupport.addValidation(field, "letters", buildMessage(formatter, field), null);
    }

    /**
     * Server-side validation.
     */
    @Override
    public void validate(Field field, Void constraintValue, MessageFormatter formatter, String value)
            throws ValidationException {
        // This does the server-side validation
        if (value != null) {
            if (!value.matches("[A-Za-z]+")) {
                throw new ValidationException(buildMessage(formatter, field));
            }
        }

    }

    private String buildMessage(MessageFormatter formatter, Field field) {
        return formatter.format(field.getLabel());
    }

    public boolean isLetters() {
        return true;
    }

}

ValidationMessages.properties


validate-letters=%s must contain letters only. 

letters.js


/*
 * A client-side validator that requires a string to contain letters only. Used with Letters.java.
 */
Tapestry.Validator.letters = function(field, message) {
    
    field.addValidator(function(value) {
        if (value != null) {
            if (value.match('[A-Za-z]+') != value) {
                throw message;
            }
        }
    });

};

AppModule.java


package jumpstart.web.services;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashSet;

import jumpstart.util.JodaTimeUtil;
import jumpstart.web.translators.MoneyTranslator;
import jumpstart.web.translators.YesNoTranslator;
import jumpstart.web.validators.Letters;

import org.apache.tapestry5.SymbolConstants;
import org.apache.tapestry5.Translator;
import org.apache.tapestry5.Validator;
import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.Property;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.Configuration;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.MappedConfiguration;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.OrderedConfiguration;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.ServiceBinder;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.EagerLoad;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.Inject;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.Primary;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.Symbol;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.services.ClasspathURLConverter;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.services.Coercion;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.services.CoercionTuple;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.services.ThreadLocale;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.BeanBlockContribution;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.ComponentRequestFilter;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.DisplayBlockContribution;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.EditBlockContribution;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.PageRenderLinkSource;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.Request;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.RequestFilter;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.security.WhitelistAnalyzer;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.transform.ComponentClassTransformWorker2;
import org.apache.tapestry5.upload.services.UploadSymbols;
import org.got5.tapestry5.jquery.JQuerySymbolConstants;
import org.joda.time.DateMidnight;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.LocalDate;
import org.joda.time.LocalDateTime;
import org.joda.time.LocalTime;
import org.slf4j.Logger;

/**
 * This module is automatically included as part of the Tapestry IoC Registry, it's a good place to configure and extend
 * Tapestry, or to place your own service definitions. See http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3.4/tapestry-ioc/module.html
 */
public class AppModule {
    private static final String UPLOADS_PATH = "jumpstart.upload-path";

    @Inject
    @Symbol(SymbolConstants.PRODUCTION_MODE)
    @Property(write = false)
    private static boolean productionMode;

    // Add 2 services to those provided by Tapestry.
    // - CountryNames, and SelectIdModelFactory are used by pages which ask Tapestry to @Inject them.

    public static void bind(ServiceBinder binder) {
        binder.bind(CountryNames.class);
        binder.bind(SelectIdModelFactory.class, SelectIdModelFactoryImpl.class);

        // This next line addresses an issue affecting GlassFish and JBoss - see http://blog.progs.be/?p=52
        javassist.runtime.Desc.useContextClassLoader = true;
    }

    // Tell Tapestry about our custom translators, validators, and their message files.
    // We do this by contributing configuration to Tapestry's TranslatorAlternatesSource service, FieldValidatorSource
    // service, and ComponentMessagesSource service.

    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    public static void contributeTranslatorAlternatesSource(MappedConfiguration<String, Translator> configuration,
            ThreadLocale threadLocale) {
        configuration.add("yesno", new YesNoTranslator("yesno"));
        configuration.add("money2", new MoneyTranslator("money2", 2, threadLocale));
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    public static void contributeFieldValidatorSource(MappedConfiguration<String, Validator> configuration) {
        configuration.add("letters", new Letters());
    }

    public void contributeComponentMessagesSource(OrderedConfiguration<String> configuration) {
        configuration.add("myTranslationMessages", "jumpstart/web/translators/TranslationMessages");
        configuration.add("myValidationMessages", "jumpstart/web/validators/ValidationMessages");
    }

    // Tell Tapestry about our custom ValueEncoders.
    // We do this by contributing configuration to Tapestry's ValueEncoderSource service.

    // @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    // public static void contributeValueEncoderSource(MappedConfiguration<Class, Object> configuration) {
    // configuration.addInstance(Person.class, PersonEncoder.class);
    // }

    // Tell Tapestry which locales we support, and tell Tapestry5jQuery not to suppress Tapestry's built-in Prototype
    // and Scriptaculous (see the JQuery example for more information).
    // We do this by contributing configuration to Tapestry's ApplicationDefaults service.

    public static void contributeApplicationDefaults(MappedConfiguration<String, String> configuration) {
        configuration.add(SymbolConstants.SUPPORTED_LOCALES, "en_US,en_GB,fr");
        // We have Tapestry5jQuery installed. Tell it we don't want it to suppress Prototype and Scriptaculous.
        configuration.add(JQuerySymbolConstants.SUPPRESS_PROTOTYPE, "false");
        // We don't use $j in our javascript - instead we use function scoping (see
        // http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.noConflict/)
        // but we need this next line to keep Tapestry happy (since Tapestry 5.3.4).
        configuration.add(JQuerySymbolConstants.JQUERY_ALIAS, "$j");
    }

    // Tell Tapestry how to block access to WEB-INF/, META-INF/, and assets that are not in our assets "whitelist".
    // We do this by contributing a custom RequestFilter to Tapestry's RequestHandler service.
    // - This is necessary due to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-815 .
    // - RequestHandler is shown in http://tapestry.apache.org/request-processing.html#RequestProcessing-Overview .
    // - RequestHandler is described in http://tapestry.apache.org/request-processing.html
    // - Based on an entry in the Tapestry Users mailing list by martijn.list on 15 Aug 09.

    public void contributeRequestHandler(OrderedConfiguration<RequestFilter> configuration,
            PageRenderLinkSource pageRenderLinkSource) {
        final HashSet<String> ASSETS_WHITE_LIST = new HashSet<String>(Arrays.asList("jpg", "jpeg", "png", "gif", "js",
                "css", "ico"));
        configuration.add("AssetProtectionFilter", new AssetProtectionFilter(ASSETS_WHITE_LIST, pageRenderLinkSource),
                "before:*");
    }

    // Tell Tapestry how to detect and protect pages that require security.
    // We do this by contributing a custom ComponentRequestFilter to Tapestry's ComponentRequestHandler service.
    // - ComponentRequestHandler is shown in
    // http://tapestry.apache.org/request-processing.html#RequestProcessing-Overview
    // - Based on http://tapestryjava.blogspot.com/2009/12/securing-tapestry-pages-with.html

    public void contributeComponentRequestHandler(OrderedConfiguration<ComponentRequestFilter> configuration) {
        configuration.addInstance("PageProtectionFilter", PageProtectionFilter.class);
    }

    // Tell Tapestry how to handle JBoss 7's classpath URLs - JBoss uses a "virtual file system".
    // See "Running Tapestry on JBoss" in http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5HowTos .

    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    public static void contributeServiceOverride(MappedConfiguration<Class, Object> configuration) {
        configuration.add(ClasspathURLConverter.class, new ClasspathURLConverterJBoss7());
    }

    // Tell Tapestry how to handle @EJB in page and component classes.
    // We do this by contributing configuration to Tapestry's ComponentClassTransformWorker service.
    // - Based on http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/JEE-Annotation.

    @Primary
    public static void contributeComponentClassTransformWorker(
            OrderedConfiguration<ComponentClassTransformWorker2> configuration) {
        configuration.addInstance("EJB", EJBAnnotationWorker.class, "before:Property");
    }

    // Tell Tapestry how to handle pages annotated with @WhitelistAccessOnly, eg. Tapestry's ServiceStatus and
    // PageCatalog.
    // The default WhitelistAnalyzer allows localhost only and only in non-production mode.
    // Our aim is to make the servicestatus page available to ALL clients when not in production mode.
    // We do this by contributing our own WhitelistAnalyzer to Tapestry's ClientWhiteList service.

    public static void contributeClientWhiteList(OrderedConfiguration<WhitelistAnalyzer> configuration) {
        if (!productionMode) {
            configuration.add("NonProductionWhitelistAnalyzer", new WhitelistAnalyzer() {
                @Override
                public boolean isRequestOnWhitelist(Request request) {
                    if (request.getPath().startsWith("/core/servicestatus")) {
                        return true;
                    }
                    else {
                        // This is copied from org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.security.LocalhostOnly
                        String remoteHost = request.getRemoteHost();
                        return remoteHost.equals("localhost") || remoteHost.equals("127.0.0.1")
                                || remoteHost.equals("0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0") || remoteHost.equals("0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1");
                    }
                }
            }, "before:*");
        }
    }

    // Tell Tapestry how to build our Filer service (used in the FileUpload example).
    // Annotate it with EagerLoad to force resolution of symbols at startup rather than when it is first used.

    @EagerLoad
    public static IFiler buildFiler(Logger logger, @Inject @Symbol(UPLOADS_PATH) final String uploadsPath,
            @Inject @Symbol(UploadSymbols.FILESIZE_MAX) final long fileSizeMax) {
        return new Filer(logger, UPLOADS_PATH, uploadsPath, UploadSymbols.FILESIZE_MAX, fileSizeMax);
    }

    // Tell Tapestry how to coerce Joda Time types to and from Java Date types for the TypeCoercers example.
    // We do this by contributing configuration to Tapestry's TypeCoercer service.
    // - Based on http://tapestry.apache.org/typecoercer-service.html

    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    public static void contributeTypeCoercer(Configuration<CoercionTuple> configuration) {

        // From java.util.Date to DateMidnight

        Coercion<java.util.Date, DateMidnight> toDateMidnight = new Coercion<java.util.Date, DateMidnight>() {
            public DateMidnight coerce(java.util.Date input) {
                // TODO - confirm this conversion always works, esp. across timezones
                return JodaTimeUtil.toDateMidnight(input);
            }
        };

        configuration.add(new CoercionTuple<java.util.Date, DateMidnight>(java.util.Date.class, DateMidnight.class,
                toDateMidnight));

        // From DateMidnight to java.util.Date

        Coercion<DateMidnight, java.util.Date> fromDateMidnight = new Coercion<DateMidnight, java.util.Date>() {
            public java.util.Date coerce(DateMidnight input) {
                // TODO - confirm this conversion always works, esp. across timezones
                return JodaTimeUtil.toJavaDate(input);
            }
        };

        configuration.add(new CoercionTuple<DateMidnight, java.util.Date>(DateMidnight.class, java.util.Date.class,
                fromDateMidnight));

        // From java.util.Date to LocalDate

        Coercion<java.util.Date, LocalDate> toLocalDate = new Coercion<java.util.Date, LocalDate>() {
            public LocalDate coerce(java.util.Date input) {
                // TODO - confirm this conversion always works, esp. across timezones
                return JodaTimeUtil.toLocalDate(input);
            }
        };

        configuration.add(new CoercionTuple<java.util.Date, LocalDate>(java.util.Date.class, LocalDate.class,
                toLocalDate));

        // From LocalDate to java.util.Date

        Coercion<LocalDate, java.util.Date> fromLocalDate = new Coercion<LocalDate, java.util.Date>() {
            public java.util.Date coerce(LocalDate input) {
                // TODO - confirm this conversion always works, esp. across timezones
                return JodaTimeUtil.toJavaDate(input);
            }
        };

        configuration.add(new CoercionTuple<LocalDate, java.util.Date>(LocalDate.class, java.util.Date.class,
                fromLocalDate));
    }

    // Tell Tapestry how its BeanDisplay and BeanEditor can handle the JodaTime types.
    // We do this by contributing configuration to Tapestry's DefaultDataTypeAnalyzer and BeanBlockSource services.
    // - Based on http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5/guide/beaneditform.html .

    public static void contributeDefaultDataTypeAnalyzer(
            @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") MappedConfiguration<Class, String> configuration) {
        configuration.add(DateTime.class, "dateTime");
        configuration.add(DateMidnight.class, "dateMidnight");
        configuration.add(LocalDateTime.class, "localDateTime");
        configuration.add(LocalDate.class, "localDate");
        configuration.add(LocalTime.class, "localTime");
    }

    public static void contributeBeanBlockSource(Configuration<BeanBlockContribution> configuration) {

        configuration.add(new DisplayBlockContribution("dateTime", "infra/AppPropertyDisplayBlocks", "dateTime"));
        configuration
                .add(new DisplayBlockContribution("dateMidnight", "infra/AppPropertyDisplayBlocks", "dateMidnight"));
        configuration.add(new DisplayBlockContribution("localDateTime", "infra/AppPropertyDisplayBlocks",
                "localDateTime"));
        configuration.add(new DisplayBlockContribution("localDate", "infra/AppPropertyDisplayBlocks", "localDate"));
        configuration.add(new DisplayBlockContribution("localTime", "infra/AppPropertyDisplayBlocks", "localTime"));

        configuration.add(new EditBlockContribution("dateMidnight", "infra/AppPropertyEditBlocks", "dateMidnight"));
        configuration.add(new EditBlockContribution("localDate", "infra/AppPropertyEditBlocks", "localDate"));

    }

}