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<td class="page-title-pattern-first-line " style="padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 10px"> <a href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/MDA" style="color: #3b73af; text-decoration: none">Metadata Aggregator</a> / <a href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/MDA-233" style="color: #3b73af; text-decoration: none"><img src="cid:jira-generated-image-avatar-efa682e6-6ccf-4b70-8fc1-b6bc542812fb" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Improvement" style="vertical-align: text-bottom"></a> <a href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/MDA-233" style="color: #3b73af; text-decoration: none">MDA-233</a> </td>
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<td style="padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font: normal 14px/20px Arial, sans-serif; padding: 2px 0 2px 5px; vertical-align: top"> <a class="user-hover" rel="ian@iay.org.uk" id="email_ian@iay.org.uk" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=ian%40iay.org.uk" style="color:#0052cc;; color: #3b73af; text-decoration: none">Ian Young</a> </td>
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<td style="padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font: normal 14px/20px Arial, sans-serif; padding: 2px 0 2px 5px; vertical-align: top"> 21/Nov/19 11:16 AM </td>
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<td style="padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font: normal 14px/20px Arial, sans-serif; padding: 2px 0 2px 5px; vertical-align: top"> <a class="user-hover" rel="ian@iay.org.uk" id="email_ian@iay.org.uk" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=ian%40iay.org.uk" style="color:#0052cc;; color: #3b73af; text-decoration: none">Ian Young</a> </td>
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Action validate(V e, Item<?> item, @Nonnull <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> stageId)
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</div> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">Here we have a value <tt>v</tt> to process, an <tt>item</tt> where we can put item metadata such as <tt>ErrorStatus</tt>, and a stage identifier to use in constructing that item metadata's <tt>componentId</tt>, normally by combining it with the validator's own identifier (so that we end up with something like <tt>stage/validator</tt>).</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">This works well to tell us which component in the configuration has caused the validation to fail, but it doesn't help in determining where in a perhaps large and complex item's content tree the value came from.</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">An improvement to this model would allow the validator's caller to optionally provide that information, perhaps by passing in a DOM element or attribute name which could then be integrated into the contents of the <tt>ErrorStatus</tt>.</p>
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Action validate(V e, Item<?> item, @Nonnull <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> executionContext, @Nullable <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> valueContext)
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</div> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">I'm spitballing identifiers here, but the idea is that one of the strings would indicate component structure as now (where at least some of the time <tt>stageId</tt> is a misnomer), and the other would be a hint as to where the value came from within the document.</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">One of the two methods (probably the old one? this needs some thought) could be a default method to make it simpler to write validators that don't need this level of detail because the value itself (and the composite component identifier) is sufficient to identify the source.</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">I'm working on some prototype validation components at present that would benefit from this, but outside the MDA project. In that work, I will probably pass the value context in as part of the "<tt>stageId</tt>" value, but that's going to end up with it appearing in strange places. When I come to upstreaming that work, it should be rewritten along these lines.</p> </td>
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