[FormProc-developer] Some Comments

[Kerry T. <ke...@to...>]

Hello.

I've been trying out FormProc the last couple of days.  Overall, I think
it is an excellent tool.  Very nice work!  I would like to share some of
my impressions being a first time user.  I also have a few questions.

My first question is how do you set up a field with no validator?  When
I configure a field like:

<formproc:element name="address" />

or even 

<formproc:element name="address">
    <formproc:write-method>setAddress</formproc:write-method>
</formproc:element>

It throws a ResourceException.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but this field
configuration seems valid.  if not, an exception with some description
of the problem would be helpful.  Like "ResourceException: Missing
required --- tag" for example.

Secondly, I received this error that seems due to the fact that I had
fields in my form that were not included in the configuration file:

[DEBUG]:com.anthonyeden.lib.resource.ResourceFileMonitor - Starting
FileMonitor
[DEBUG]:com.anthonyeden.lib.resource.ResourceFileMonitor - FileMonitor
running.
[DEBUG]:org.formproc.FormManager - Formproc configuration loaded
[DEBUG]:org.formproc.servlet.HttpForm - Processing servlet request.
[DEBUG]:org.formproc.Form - Validating field action
[DEBUG]:org.formproc.Form - getName: action
[DEBUG]:org.formproc.Form - Found form element.
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.formproc.Form.validate(Form.java:300)
	at org.formproc.Form.process(Form.java:266)
	at org.formproc.servlet.HttpForm.process(HttpForm.java:38)
	at EntryForm.handle(EntryForm.java:49)

Wouldn't it be better to gracefully ignore fields in the form that are
not included in the xml configuration file?  Or at least throw a
meaningfull exception with some description of the problem with the
config file?

Regards,
Kerry

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Kerry Todyruik <ke...@to...>