Apply Validator to programmatically created ADF Faces components

Again a post in series of  Working with ADF Faces Components programmatically
Previously i have posted about Getting value , Applying Action Listener , Applying Client/Server Listener, Creating and applying client Attributes, Setting value expression  to programmatically created component
Now this post post is about applying Validator to a component that is created at run time
See how to do this (Jdev 12.1.3)-

• First created a FusionWebApplication and a page in viewController project
• Dropped a button on page , on this button action i will create an inputText programmatically and assign validator method reference to it
• To create new inputText i have added following code (described in previous post)

Conditional Execution of Model (EO) level Validation- Oracle ADF

You all know about ADF model level validation , we can apply variety of validation on model (Entity Object), as for length, compare, key, regular expression, script and unique key etc.

I am not going to describe whole process for model layer validation, for detailed tutorial on EO level validation see -Dynamic (parameterize) model level validation using message token
Now see how we can execute these validation conditionally -

• When we apply unique key validation on Entity Object- this window appears-

• Now go to Validation Execution and write your condition in given box for that you want to execute validation

• Now go to Failure Handling tab and write your failure handling message, and you are done





• Now run your application and see how validation executes for your condition
• this functionality is really helpful and sometimes avoids writing lot of managed bean code

Phone Number custom validation using Regular Expression in ADF and Java

Regular Expression (REGEX) is the best method to validate phone number. emailId, name in Java.
Here I have written this validation code for phone number using Regular Expression and Java code to use this in an Oracle ADF Application.

public void phoneNoValidator(FacesContext facesContext, UIComponent uIComponent, Object object) {
        String msg2 = "";
        if (object != null) {
            String phnNo = object.toString();
            int openB = 0;
            int closeB = 0;
            boolean closeFg = false;
            char[] xx = phnNo.toCharArray();
            for (char c : xx) {
                if (c == '(') {
                    openB = openB + 1;
                } else if (c == ')') {
                    closeB = closeB + 1;
                }

                if (closeB > openB) {
                    closeFg = true; //closed brackets will not be more than open brackets at any given time.
                }
            }
            //if openB=0 then no. of closing and opening brackets equal || opening bracket must always come before closing brackets
            //closing brackets must not come before first occurrence of openning bracket
            if (openB != closeB || closeFg == true || (phnNo.lastIndexOf("(") > phnNo.lastIndexOf(")")) ||
                (phnNo.indexOf(")") < phnNo.indexOf("("))) {
                msg2 = "Brackets not closed properly.";
                FacesMessage message2 = new FacesMessage(msg2);
                message2.setSeverity(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR);
                throw new ValidatorException(message2);
            }
            if (phnNo.contains("()")) {
                msg2 = "Empty Brackets are not allowed.";
                FacesMessage message2 = new FacesMessage(msg2);
                message2.setSeverity(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR);
                throw new ValidatorException(message2);
            }
            if (phnNo.contains("(.") || phnNo.contains("(-") || phnNo.contains("-)")) {
                msg2 = "Invalid Phone Number.Check content inside brackets.";
                FacesMessage message2 = new FacesMessage(msg2);
                message2.setSeverity(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR);
                throw new ValidatorException(message2);
            }

            openB = 0;
            closeB = 0;
            closeFg = false;
            //check for valid language name.Allowed- brackets,dots,hyphen

            String expression = "([0-9\\-\\+\\(\\)]+)";
            CharSequence inputStr = phnNo;
            Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(expression);
            Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(inputStr);
            String error = "Invalid Phone Number";
            System.out.println("Index of plus is--->" + phnNo.lastIndexOf("+"));
            System.out.println("Bracket index--->" + phnNo.charAt(0));

            if (matcher.matches()) {
                if (phnNo.contains("++") || phnNo.contains("--")) {
                    throw new ValidatorException(new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, error,
                                                                  "Can not contain two hyphen(--) or plus(++)"));
                } else if (phnNo.lastIndexOf("+") > 1) {
                    throw new ValidatorException(new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, error,
                                                                  "Plus sign should be in proper place"));
                } else if (phnNo.lastIndexOf("+") == 1 && phnNo.charAt(0) != '(') {
                    throw new ValidatorException(new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, error,
                                                                  "Plus sign should be in proper place"));
                } else if (phnNo.startsWith(" ") || phnNo.endsWith(" ")) {
                    throw new ValidatorException(new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, error,
                                                                  "Space Not allowed at start and end"));
                }

            } else {
                throw new ValidatorException(new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, error,
                                                              "Only numeric character,+,() and - allowed"));
            }

        }
    }

Cheers:) Happy Learning

Custom Validator in Oracle ADF (JSF Validator), Email Validation Using Regex

Validation is very important part of any programming language, when we visit any website's registration form it says "This field is mandatory" or "Email id is not valid","Password doesn't match", these all are validations

What is a Validator-
A computer program or piece of code that checks syntax or value of any field according to a predefined condition is called Validator
Validators are used in every programming/scripting language.

How to Use Custom Validator in ADF Forms-
This is not complex to use validator in ADF forms, means in .jsff or in .jspx pages. Suppose we have a field of EmailId on form and we want to add custom email id validator on this field

To add validator in a field follow these steps

• Select the field in Form

•  Now go to property inspector and Select Validator,it is empty by default

• Now click on Validator edit in property inspector and create a validator in ManagedBean of taskflow

 

• It will look like this- Default Custom Validator 

•  Now we will add custom code to validate EmailId field in this validator

1.     public void emailValidator(FacesContext facesContext, UIComponent uIComponent, Object object) {
2.         if(object!=null){
3.             String name=object.toString();
4.             String expression="^[_A-Za-z0-9-]+(\\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9]+(\\.[A-Za-z0-9]+)*(\\.[A-Za-z]{2,})$";
5.             CharSequence inputStr=name;
6.             Pattern pattern=Pattern.compile(expression);
7.             Matcher matcher=pattern.matcher(inputStr);
8.             String msg="Email is not in Proper Format";
9.             if(matcher.matches()){
10.                
11.             }
12.             else{
13.                 throw new ValidatorException(new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR,msg,null));
14.             }
15.         }
16.     }

• Now when we run this page, we can see validation