[TAP5-86] Add support for "cancel" submit buttons (which bypass client-side validation)

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.15
• Fix Version/s: 5.2.0
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Davor Hrg
• Created: 01/Feb/08 13:06
• Updated: 09/Apr/16 18:56
• Resolved: 05/Feb/10 18:59

Description

There is a need for more submit types...
although <input type="submit"> and <input type="reset"> are trivial even without a component,
there is a problem when a type="cancel" is needed.

The issue here is that in case of cancel client validation must be skipped, and that is not possible with current
Submit component.

I don't know how submit type=cancel works for T4 so I've implemented it how it seemed right for me.

extract from javadoc for the "type" parameter

• Determines the button behavior, <b>"submit"</b> - a normal form button, <b>"reset"</b> - reset form (locally),
• "cancel" - works like an actionlink, generates a "cancel" event instead of "selected" and the form is not submitted
• (if javascript is disabled form will be submitted, and "cancel" event fired as well),
• <b>"submitcancel"</b> - works like "cancel" but behaves consistently with and without javascript
• submission (this is usually desirable).

input type=cancel uses javascript to redirect to an action link url, thus avoiding form submission,
so I've added type=submitcancel which still submits the form but avoids client validation.

both generate "cancel" event which is different from the "selected" event

on top of all that the type=forced could be easily added to call "selected" event while skipping client side validation

Issue Links

• relates to: TAP5-2539 Cancelling a form should skip server-side validation