On Sunday, October 7, 2012 9:42:05 PM UTC-4, James Roper wrote:
> The Constraints.Required is part of the form validation API, and hence
> only works when validating forms. However, you can easily tell the Form
> validation to validate JSON, like so:
> Form<MyBean> myForm.bind(jsonData);
> Will give you the validated MyBean, or the errors.
> On Sunday, 7 October 2012 07:46:16 UTC+11, Mike wrote:
>> Apologies in advance if this is in the manual and I missed it or if it is
>> somewhere in these forums. I have searched around for a while now and I
>> still can't seem to find what I am looking for.
>> I am trying to use the Constraints.Required on a model. I was expecting
>> these to be checked when I attempt to save the object but it appears my
>> assumption was incorrect as my app is happily writing nulls for required
>> columns.
>> I am not binding forms to the model, I am writing a web service and
>> binding the Json using play.libs.Json.fromJson(jsonData,MyBean.class); The
>> only examples I see online are binding forms to models so I suspect that
>> this may be the part I am missing but I am not certain. If I wanted to
>> have it validate on save, is that even possible and, if so, how?
