[Zope3-dev] WidgetInputError and support for multiple errors

[Jim Fulton]

Garrett Smith wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> 
>>Garrett Smith wrote:
>>
>>>It's not obvious to me why one would need support for multiple errors
>>>for a widget. Any input here?
>>
>>Multiple schema invariants involving a field are violated.
>>
>>(Are schema invariants checked today?)
> 
> 
> I dont believe so -- I haven't seen anything like that. The widget
> merely calls the field's validate method, which only raises a single
> error.

But in the future we will.  We'll probably need to say that we only check
schema invariants of all of the field constraints are met.  I could easily
imagine multiple invariants involving the same field and wanting to show the
messages for them next to the field.

Jim

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