Question

Environment: Mac OS X Lion, PHP 5.3.10, MySQL 5.X, TYPO3 4.7.1, Extbase 4.7.1, Fluid 4.7.0

I have been struggeling for a few days with a strange validation error in extbase.

Tx_Foo_Controller_FeUserController contains the two following actions:

    /**
     * @param $feUser
     * @return void
     * @dontvalidate $feUser
     */
    public function registerAction(Tx_Foo_Domain_Model_FeUser $feUser = NULL )

and

    /**
     * @param Tx_Foo_Domain_Model_FeUser $feUser
     * @param string $password2
     * @return void
     */
    public function createAction( Tx_Foo_Domain_Model_FeUser $feUser ,$password2 )

Content of both actions:

$this->view->assign('feUser', $feUser);

The register.html has the following form:

<f:flashMessages />

<f:form.errors>
    <div class="error">
        {error.message}
        <f:if condition="{error.propertyName}">
            <p>
                <strong>{error.propertyName}</strong>:
                <f:for each="{error.errors}" as="errorDetail">
                    {errorDetail.message}
                </f:for>
            </p>
        </f:if>
    </div>
</f:form.errors>        
<f:form object="{feUser}" objectName="feUser" class="form-horizontal" id="fooRegisterForm"
  controller="FeUser" action="create" noCache="1" noCacheHash="1">

     <f:form.textfield type="email" property="email" value="{feUser.email}"/>
    <f:form.textfield property="password" value=""/>
    <f:form.textfield name="password2" value=""/>    
</f:form>

and createAction has just some “OK” text in it.

The problem is: Each time I add an @validate annotation to the createAction() method I’ll get this error:
An error occurred while trying to call Tx_Foo_Controller_FeUserController->createAction()

There is no difference if I use a custom validator or a bundled one.

Example for createAction()

     * @validate $password2 Tx_Extbase_Validation_Validator_IntegerValidator

Integer is used to provoke an error.

A custom validator is like Tx_Foo_Domain_Validator_FeUserValidator where you don’t have to add the @validation tag.

Custom validator:

/**
 * Validation of given Params
 *
 * @param Tx_Foo_Domain_Model_FeUser $feUser
 * @return void
 */
public function isValid($feUser)
{

    $this->addError('Passwords are not RSA strings', 1297418974 );
    return false;        
}

It doesn’t matter if there is a return statement…

I’ve looked up in Tx_Extbase_MVC_Controller_ActionController -> callActionMethod() and the whole validation process (via var_dump and debug_backtrace and so on) to figure out why this error is happening and why there is no output from the error messages. It’s all very strange … so maybe someone has a tipp here 🙂

The same error occurs if I add a @validation tag in the model of my feUser class like
@validate notEmpty

Extbase configuration via typoscript

config.tx_extbase {
    features.rewrittenPropertyMapper = 1
    persistence{
        storagePid = 5
        enableAutomaticCacheClearing = 1
        updateReferenceIndex = 0
        classes {
            Tx_Foo_Domain_Model_FeUser {
                mapping {
                    tableName = fe_users
                    columns {
                        lockToDomain.mapOnProperty = lockToDomain
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Thanks a lot in advance.

PS: Sure I googled it a lot before asking here.

Answer 1

In my case this error comes up, because an extbase referrer was missing. If there is no referrer, the default message is thrown by extbase.

Because I had no form but just a link, I have to add the referrer manually:

/index.php?id=10&tx_bieval_pi1[send]=1&tx_bieval_pi1[hash]=12345&tx_bieval_pi1[__referrer][actionName]=index&tx_bieval_pi1[action]=form&tx_bieval_pi1[controller]=Participation

That did the trick