Joining Two Rule Files

[Greg Moser]

Hey All,

Was wondering if this was already avaiable in ValidateThis, and if not... how much it would take to add.  Imagine a situation where our Software comes with a default set of Validation rule files, however we would like for people to define their own ValidateThis rules file in XML and then merge the two rule files.  So the folder structure might look like this:

/Validation

  Account.xml.cfm

  Product.xml.cfm

  Order.xml.cfm

  /custom

      Product.xml.cfm

So basically if the file exists in the "custom" directory (in this case Product.xml.cfm) we want to add any rules from that custom file that don't already exist in the base file.

Thoughts?

-Greg

[Matt Quackenbush]

I've not looked at the XML guts of VT for quite some time, so I'm not sure whether or not it's already supported. That said, it's commonplace to support some sort of "import" mechanism where custom settings can be imported to override the standard settings. It sounds like that's your aim.

I'd recommend taking a peek at ColdSpring 1.2's import mechanism, because it supports it. I also wrote an import mechanism for ColdBox 2.x. I have no idea if that's still out there available anywhere these days (that was years ago, and ColdBox is 3.5+ now).

HTH

-Greg

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[Sumit Verma]

We can probably merge the xml files on application load, but it will be cool if this is supported in the core. I would imagine being able to specify a list of folders and then rules (if found) being merged in that order.

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