Spring Web Flow... how to stop Form Validation on only one transition

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Spring Web Flow... how to stop Form Validation on only one transition.

How to stop Form Validation on only one transition. With the following code I have form validation turn on and everything is working great but if the user clicks "cancel" I dont want to run the form validation. anyway around this?

<view-state id="helloworld" view="input.jsp" model="customer" popup="true">
<transition on="submit" to="preview" />
<transition on="cancel" to="thanks"/>
</view-state>

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 25 '12 at 13:36

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Transitions have the ability to define whether or not you want binding and validation, just set them to false.

<view-state id="helloworld" view="input.jsp" model="customer" popup="true">
<transition on="submit" to="preview" />
<transition on="cancel" to="thanks" validate="false" bind="false"/>
</view-state>

answered Jul 25 '12 at 13:36

John Vint

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you dont need the bind="false" just the validate="false" – Johnathan Smith Jul 25 '12 at 14:13
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You often want `bind="false"` when you use `validate="false"`, though. Otherwise your model object accepts data that was never checked. – dbreaux Jul 25 '12 at 17:00
@dbreaux Agreed. I always follow this idiom as well. – John Vint Jul 25 '12 at 17:22

Spring Web Flow... how to stop Form Validation on only one transition

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