JSF and partial validation

Question

I wonder if there is a trick to validate all fields in a form except one ?

Something like :

<p:remoteCommand process="@form^F100"  .... />

Obviously, this doesn't work...

If I have 100 fields in a form, is there any way or shortcut to validate all exception F100 for example ?

Am I doomed to use

<p:remoteCommand process="F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 .... F99"  .... />

?

Answer 1

You can use PrimeFaces Selectors (PFS) for this. This allows you using jQuery CSS selector syntax in process and update attributes of PrimeFaces ajax components. You could for example use a noprocess class on the component which you'd like to skip and use :not(.noprocess) selector.

Your particular requirement can then be solved as follows:

<h:form>
    <h:inputText ... />
    <h:inputText ... />
    <h:inputText ... />
    ...
    <h:inputText ... />
    <h:inputText ... />
    <h:inputText ... styleClass="noprocess" />
    <p:remoteCommand ... process="@(form :not(.noprocess))"/>
</h:form>

This example will process the entire form expect of inputs having class="noprocess" in the client side.