[news.eclipse.platform] Re: [DataBinding] Asynchronous validation

["Boris Bokowski" <bokowski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ovidio,

Again, this sounds like a reasonable use case that we don't support yet. 
Could you please file an enhancement request in bugzilla?

Thanks
Boris

"Ovidio Mallo" <malloovidio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Hi all!
>
> I wanted to ask whether it is possible to use asynchronous validators
> in a binding. The actual model update should then be deferred until the
> actual validation has been performed (e.g. on a server).
> I was thinking about an approach like the following:
> 1. The validator immediately returns a temporary IStatus result which
>    should be of type ERROR to avoid the model update.
> 2. When the actual validation terminates, the validator triggers an
>    explicit update on the binding (this, of course, requires the
>    validator to reference the binding which is not so nice).
>
> Is this an acceptable approach or is there some better way of solving
> the problem?
>
> Thanks & regards,
> Ovidio