Re: [Formsess-devel] validators: empty values

[Katana <ka...@ka...>]

> I think in most cases people don't want to allow empty strings entered
> in email fields. Always adding two checks is very anoying and likely to
> be forgotten.
> Furthermore most of the users won't really read the manual that
> carefully to notice that empty string are accepted.
> If I hear about an email validator I expect it to reject empty string as
> they are not a valid email address.
> 
> Also if you want to allow empty values and forget to add the acceptEmpty
> (or whatever) attribute people will complain because they get
> errormessages but if you don't want to allow empty values and don't know
> that the email check does you will run into problems with empty fields
> in your database, email without sender and maybe not even notice it.
> 
> I strongly vote for an additional attribute to allow empty values but to
> reject them by default. They're just not an email address, it's that
> easy... (same for url) ;)
Yeah, thinking about it, I agree, now. An "optionnal" attribute should 
do the trick. But we will have a BC issue since with the old versions 
optionnal had a default value of true, now it would be false...

In order to implement it, I suppose it will be easy to add it properly 
to FormsessValidator main classes :)

Katana