Masking and Validations

[swatiagarwal]

SmartClient Version: v11.0p_2017-02-11/PowerEdition Deployment (built 2017-02-11)
I have a form bound to datasource.

I have set the masking on phone number field and want the masked data to be saved in DB.

((TextItem) form.getField("phone").setMask("(###) ###-####");
((TextItem) form.getField("phone").setMaskSaveLiterals(true);

Now before saving i need to check that the user enters the numbers in above format and should contain 10 digits. I tried
MaskValidator phnvalidator= new MaskValidator();
phnvalidator.setMask("(###) ###-####");
form.getField("phone").setValidators(phnvalidator);
But still the validation does not happen. Even if i enter 33, it gets saved

[Isomorphic]

See docs: the "mask" provided for a MaskValidator is expected to be a regular expression.

If you're not aware of what a regular expression is, please Google it.

[swatiagarwal]

Thanks. It works with regex.