| An aggregated field allows to represent one value as multiple input fields, or several values
as one field. Hence this widget is a field and a container widget simultaneously.
Upon submit, it first attempts to read own value from the request, and splits over nested
field widgets using a regular expression. If split fails, this will simply give a validation error.
If own value was not submitted, it attempts to read values for nested field widgets, and combines
theirs values using combine expression.
To validate this widget, both the validation rules of the nested widgets are
checked, and those of the aggregated field themselves. The validation rules of the aggregated
field can perform checks on the string as entered by the user (e.g. check its total length).
This field and nested fields can be of any supported type, as long as combine expression
gives result of the correct type, and split regular expression can split string representation
into parts which can be converted to the values of nested fields.
version:
$Id: AggregateField.java 462520 2006-10-10 19:39:14Z vgritsenko $ |
