Re: [Gnumed-devel] Validation of data within widgits

[Karsten Hilbert]

> where for example valid postal codes vary by country, if the validation 
> were to be done only from the back end, would this mean every country 
> would need its own version of the table field constraints? Is that in 
> fact the easiest way to accommodate such differences?
I would assume not so.

> Presumably a "smart date" function, which would interpret a single 
> integer as the date of the current month etc, would operate in a client 
Uhm, like wxpython/gmDateTimeInput.py ?  I wonder why no one
seems to use it, though. It was announced on the list sure
enough.

> widget rather than via the back end? The back end would only care that 
> it is a valid date and, for example in the case of a date of birth, 
> must not be a date in the future?
Exactly, this is the kind of thing the backend will *enforce*
(not necessarily take care of primarily).

Karsten
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