[Zope3-dev] Re: Field binding considered icky

[Fred Drake]

On Monday 05 April 2004 02:51 pm, Martijn Faassen wrote:
 > +1. The adapter should then call the original field validate method
 > first, and then add to it. I think it should only add to the validation
 > process, never alter it. This makes it easier to reason about such
 > adapters.

If this is the "right thing," then perhaps the field's validate() should 
always be called, and the adapter only checked for and used after that 
passes.  Unless you expect the adapter to transform the data before calling 
the field's validate()....?


  -Fred

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