Editable grid with ValidationTextBox does not work

[Ian Fouls]

There is no functionality built into the grid to allow text editing with simple requirements of say a required field or a basic regular expression. Attempting to use the constraint attribute within a grid cell does not work as this does not map with the use of constraints within the ValidationTextBox? widget.

It's a little odd that more complex editing requirements have been dealt with but the basics of required text or simple pattern matching have not been addressed.

Looking through the code I think the only way to do this is to write a validator function in a custom edit widget. This is getting silly for such a basic requirement.

Attached is a modified version of the test_edit_dijit.html using a ValidationTextBox? and attemptint to specify a constraint, clearly this isn't going to work but I feel it should do.

Would it not be more sensible to include a grid dijit widget based on ValidationTextBox? rather than expecting developers to create custom widgets for basic requirements?

[haysmark]

This is just a TODOC, I'm not sure who special-cased constraints or why they did it. The correct strategy for setting arbitrary widget attributes is to specify the widgetProps on the cell:

{ name: 'Message', field: 'col4', styles: '', width: 10,  widgetProps:{regExp: '[`]+'}, widgetClass: dijit.form.ValidationTextBox},

This makes Message only match values which contain one or more ` mark.

[bill]

DojoX Grid and EnhancedGrid are deprecated in favor of ​dgrid and ​gridx.

You should upgrade your code to use one of those two grids.

We will consider patches to the old DojoX Grid code though.