Question

Spring Web Flow… how to stop Form Validation on only one transition.

How to stop Form Validation on only one transition. With the following code I have form validation turn on and everything is working great but if the user clicks “cancel” I dont want to run the form validation. anyway around this?

<view-state id="helloworld" view="input.jsp" model="customer" popup="true">
<transition on="submit" to="preview" />
<transition on="cancel" to="thanks"/>
</view-state> 

Answer 1

Transitions have the ability to define whether or not you want binding and validation, just set them to false.

<view-state id="helloworld" view="input.jsp" model="customer" popup="true">
<transition on="submit" to="preview" />
<transition on="cancel" to="thanks" validate="false" bind="false"/>
</view-state>