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Basics

Validation

Introduction
Validation Rules

Introduction

In Nylo, we provide a simple way to can start validating your users input and show them feedback through an alert.

We currently have some basic validation rules but we'll be adding more in the future.

Let's take a look how validation works in Nylo.

class ExamplePage extends NyStatefulWidget {
  final ExampleController controller = ExampleController();
  ...
}

class _ExampleState extends NyState<ExamplePage> {
  TextEditingController _textFieldControllerEmail = TextEditingController();
  ...

  handleForm() {
    String textEmail = _textFieldControllerEmail.text;

    try {
      this.validator(rules: {
          "email address": "email"
        }, data: {
          "email address": textEmail
      });
      // will show alert error if fails the validation and throw exception
    } on ValidationException catch(e) {
      print(e.toString());
    }
  }
}

Options:

this.validator(
  rules: {
  "email address": "email|max:10" // checks data is an email and maximum of 10 characters
  }, data: {
    "email address": textEmail // data to be validated
  }, message: {
    "email address": "oops|it failed" // first section is title, then add a " | " and then provide the the description
  },
  showAlert: true, // if you want Nylo to display the alert, default : true
  alertStyle: ToastNotificationStyleType.DANGER // choose from SUCCESS, INFO, WARNING and DANGER
);

This method is handy if you want to quickly validate the users data and display some feedback to the user.