Custom validator added for DataSourceLinkField is not working

[cpaulson]

Hi,

I have added custom regular expression validator for link field to validate URL.

It is not validating the field on call of FilterBuilder.validate().


Code snippet:
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DataSourceField dataSourceSrcField = new DataSourceLinkField(name, title);
RegExpValidator expValidator = new RegExpValidator();
expValidator.setExpression("^(https?|ftp|file)://[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]");
expValidator.setValidateOnChange(true);
dataSourceSrcField.setValidators(expValidator);

Can anyone help with this.

Regards,
Cijo P

[Isomorphic]

By design, forms used for searching do not apply validation rules, because what a user enters as search criteria usually does not fit the validation rules that apply to data meant to be stored.

It's not clear what you're up to here - it seems unlikely that you really intend to force the user to enter a complete URL before they are allowed to search? But if you wanted a rule like that, the simplest thing is to pop up a warning dialog when the search is attempted.