{"id":1615,"date":"2010-02-10T03:45:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T09:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/?page_id=1615"},"modified":"2023-06-20T15:57:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:57:25","slug":"validating-via-a-java-external-object-source-code","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/knowledge-base\/validating-via-a-java-external-object-source-code","title":{"rendered":"Validating via a Java External Object Source Code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

mrc recommends using the Workflow Designer<\/a> to validate user input going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source Code<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

package MRCWORKLIB;<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

public class Validate
{
    public void valid_fields(String[] args)
    {
        String strdatex = args[1].replaceAll(\",\", \"\");
        String enddatex = args[2].replaceAll(\",\", \"\");
        int strdate = Integer.parseInt(strdatex);
        int enddate= Integer.parseInt(enddatex);<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        if ((strdatex.compareTo(\"0\") == 0 ) && (enddatex.compareTo(\"0\") == 0 ))
            {
            args[0] = \"You have not entered any dates\";
            return;
            }<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        else if (strdatex.compareTo(\"0\") == 0)
            {
            args[0] =\"You must enter a starting date\";
            return;
            }<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        else if (enddatex.compareTo(\"0\") == 0)
            {
            args[0] = \"You must enter an end date\";
            return;
            }
        else if(strdate > enddate)
            {
            args[0] = \"Starting Date is greater than End Date\";
            return;
            }
        else return;
    }
}<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source Code package MRCWORKLIB; public class Validate{    public void valid_fields(String[] args)    {        String strdatex = args[1].replaceAll(“,”, “”);        String enddatex = args[2].replaceAll(“,”, “”);        int strdate = Integer.parseInt(strdatex);        int enddate= Integer.parseInt(enddatex);         if ((strdatex.compareTo(“0”) == 0 ) && (enddatex.compareTo(“0”) == 0 ))            {            args[0] = “You have not entered any dates”;            return;            }         else if (strdatex.compareTo(“0”) == 0)            {            args[0] =”You must enter a starting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1615","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12865,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1615\/revisions\/12865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}