[WICKET-4853] Change FormComponent#reportRequiredError() from private to protected

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.9, 6.3.0
• Component/s: wicket
• Assignee: Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov
• Reporter: John Krasnay
• Created: 05/Nov/12 01:22
• Updated: 06/Nov/12 08:34
• Resolved: 06/Nov/12 08:34

Description

It is awkward to provide a custom "required" message for a form component from Java. One must override and re-implement validate(). Making the form component not required and providing an explicit validator is sub-optimal, since there may be other components that depend on the required flag. For example, I have a label component that automatically adds a star when attached to a required form component.

Making FormComponent#reportRequiredError() protected would make this trivial.

This was discussed here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/wicket-dev/201204.mbox/[e-mail]%3E