Suggestion: FieldTypes and Validator behavior

[damend]

Hi,

I like the usage of FieldType in DataSourceField of ds.xml files.

E.g. default behavior is for type="integer" is to add a integer validator.

I think, it would be a nice behaviour or property,
to enable a mask-like validator, which automatically changes the typed in value of the user, in the case of integer, disallow entering any characters except integer.
Showing a validator error, where user needs to manual fix it, will become obsolete.



public class IntegerTrimmingType extends SimpleType {

protected static final String NOTHING = "";

public IntegerTrimmingType() {
super(CustomGeneralTypes.integerTrimmingType.name(), FieldType.TEXT);

setEditParser(new SimpleTypeParser() {

@Override
public Object parseInput(String value, DataClass field, DataBoundComponent component, Record record) {
return String.valueOf(value).replaceAll("[^\\d]*", NOTHING);
}
});
}
}


What is your opinion?

[Isomorphic]

Thanks for posting that, it may be useful to others.