Re: Model validates when needed field is not available in $data array!

Oh, I found the problem. Because I used the fixture with the ID 1, the
record was already available in the test-DB and so actually there was
a value of number when no number key was in the array. :-) Thanks
anyway.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:02 PM, psybear83 <psybear83@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> I'm doing some unit testing right now, and I stumbled over the
> following...
>
> I have a model Contract, which has the following validation rule:
>
> class Contract extends AppModel {
>        var $name = 'Contract';
>        var $validate = array(
>                'number' => array('rule' => '/^[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{3}$/i',
> 'message' => 'must correspond to the pattern "123-45-678"'),
>        );
> }
>
> My test looks the following:
>
>    // 1st
>    $this->Contract->set(array(
>                        'id' => 1,
>                        'number' => '735-10-001',
>                ));
>    $this->assertTrue($this->Contract->validates()); // Passes
>
>    // 2nd
>    $this->Contract->set(array(
>                        'id' => 1,
>                        /*'number' => '735-10-001',*/
>                ));
>    $this->assertTrue($this->Contract->validates()); // Passes
>
>    // 3rd
>    $this->Contract->set(array(
>                        'id' => 1,
>                        'number' => '',
>                ));
>    $this->assertTrue($this->Contract->validates()); // Fails
>
> This seems quite odd to me! Why should the 2nd test pass and the 3rd
> not? IMHO both the 2nd and the 3rd should fail...?
>
> What do you think? Thanks,
> Josh
>
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