[TAP5-520] Using regular expressions with the @Validate annotation causes odd parse errors if the regexp includes common characters (including commas)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.18
• Fix Version/s: 5.1.0.1
• Component/s: tapestry-core
• Assignee: Igor Drobiazko
• Reporter: Kostiantyn Miklevskyi
• Created: 17/Feb/09 09:55
• Updated: 27/May/14 22:03
• Resolved: 05/Mar/09 07:42

Description

Try adding this field to your form:

@Validate("regexp=^([a-zA-Z0-9]

{2,4}

)+$")
private String somefield;

Page will fail to render with exception saying:

Render queue error in BeginRender[mypage.somefield]: Failure reading parameter 'validate' of component mypage.somefield: Coercion of ^([a-zA-Z0-9]{2 to type java.util.regex.Pattern (via String --> java.util.regex.Pattern) failed: Unclosed counted closure near index 15 ^([a-zA-Z0-9]{2 ^

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: TAP5-2341 Can't specify a regexp validator with a comma