package HTML::FormFu::Validator; use Moose; extends 'HTML::FormFu::Processor'; use HTML::FormFu::Exception::Validator; use Scalar::Util qw( reftype blessed ); use Carp qw( croak ); sub process { my ( $self, $params ) = @_; my $value = $self->get_nested_hash_value( $params, $self->nested_name ); my @errors; if ( ( reftype( $value ) || '' ) eq 'ARRAY' ) { push @errors, eval { $self->validate_values( $value, $params ) }; if ($@) { push @errors, $self->return_error($@); } } else { my $ok = eval { $self->validate_value( $value, $params ) }; if ( $@ or !$ok ) { push @errors, $self->return_error($@); } } return @errors; } sub validate_values { my ( $self, $values, $params ) = @_; my @errors; for my $value (@$values) { my $ok = eval { $self->validate_value( $value, $params ) }; if ( blessed $@ && $@->isa('HTML::FormFu::Exception::Validator') ) { push @errors, $@; } elsif ( $@ or !$ok ) { push @errors, HTML::FormFu::Exception::Validator->new; } } return @errors; } sub validate_value { croak "validate() should be overridden"; } sub return_error { my ( $self, $err ) = @_; if ( !blessed $err || !$err->isa('HTML::FormFu::Exception::Validator') ) { $err = HTML::FormFu::Exception::Validator->new; } return $err; } __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable; 1; __END__ =head1 NAME HTML::FormFu::Validator - Validator Base Class =head1 SYNOPSIS =head1 DESCRIPTION =head1 METHODS =head1 CORE VALIDATORS =head1 BEST PRACTICES Try to avoid using callbacks if possible. Below is a more maintainable and reusable approach, which also keeps the code out of the controller. A normal application's directory would contain: lib/HTML/FormFu/Constraint/MyApp/ lib/HTML/FormFu/Validator/MyApp/ lib/HTML/FormFu/Plugin/MyApp/ etc. Then, the form config file would just need: validator: 'MyApp::SomeValidator' And the class would be something like this: package HTML::FormFu::Validator::MyApp::SomeValidator; use strict; use warnings; use base 'HTML::FormFu::Validator'; sub validate_value { my ( $self, $value, $params ) = @_; my $c = $self->form->stash->{context}; return 1 if $c->model('DBIC')->is_valid($value); # assuming you want to return a custom error message # which perhaps includes something retrieved from the model # otherwise, just return 0 die HTML::FormFu::Exception::Validator->new({ message => 'custom error message', }); } 1; =over =item L =back =head1 AUTHOR Carl Franks, C =head1 LICENSE This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut