Re: CakePHP ignores notEmpty validation rule when the field's name is not a key in $data! (Bug or Feature?)

Thanks Euromark for your good hint. I certainly should read through
your blogs in the near future...

But do you know why CakePHP handles stuff this way? Looks very, very
unintuitive to me. With Ruby on Rails I had much better experiences
about stuff like this a few years ago (everything just seemed to work
the way I expected it although I didn't have much experience with it
then), and I'm sure today they even have progressed much farer...

It seems a bit sad to me that CakePHP clearly doesn't seem to be able
to come even close to the experience of RoR. Any yes, I know CakePHP
isn't RoR, and yes, I could switch (well actually, I can't)... Just my
2 c€nts...

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:58 PM, euromark <dereuromark@googlemail.com> wrote:
> actually it is NOT a bug
> although many are not aware of that behavior :)
>
> you need to make sure that the field is passed to the validation
> otherwise it will be ignored
>
> @see http://www.dereuromark.de/2010/09/21/saving-model-data-and-security/
>
>
> On 30 Sep., 14:52, psybear83 <psybea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everybody
>>
>> I have baked the following very straight-forward model:
>>
>> class Post extends AppModel {
>>         var $name = 'Post';
>>         var $displayField = 'name';
>>         var $validate = array(
>>                 'name' => array(
>>                         'notempty' => array(
>>                                 'rule' => array('notempty')
>>                         ),
>>                 ),
>>         );
>>
>> }
>>
>> It only needs a value for "name" to be saved.
>>
>> Now I've written the following 3 tests:
>>
>>   function testShouldNotBeValidWithEmptyName() {
>>     $this->Post->create(array('name' => ''));
>>     $this->assertFalse($this->Post->validates());
>>   }
>>
>>   function testShouldNotBeValidWithoutName() {
>>     $this->Post->create();
>>     $this->assertFalse($this->Post->validates()); // Fails!
>>   }
>>
>>   function testShouldNotBeValidWithNullName() {
>>     $this->Post->create(array('name' => null));
>>     $this->assertFalse($this->Post->validates());
>>   }
>>
>> I expect all three of them to work, but the 2nd one fails! So why does
>> it validate when there truly is no value for the "name" field? Is this
>> really the way it should be, or is it a bug?
>>
>> I'm on version 1.3.4.
>>
>> Thanks for help
>> Josh
>
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