Re: xforms-submit-error

And, just for completeness, if you don't want to get the submission error,  
you can always disable the default action:

 <action ev:event="xforms-submit-error" ev:defaultAction="cancel"/>

Steven

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:55:47 +0200, Steven Pemberton  
<Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:

> Erik's recent message reminded me of an issue I have with the  
> xforms-submit-error event.
>
> Currently the default action for a submission error is to do nothing:
> https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_xforms-submit-error_Event
>
>  Default Action: None
>
> This seems to me to be terribly user-unfriendly. Nothing happens, and it  
> is hard to find out what's (not) happening.
>
> I would like to propose that the default action be a message, with  
> relevant context information, such as:
>
>  Submission failed
>
>  error-type: result-media-type
>  error-message: application/pdf
>  resource-uri: http://example.com/submit
>
> (Of course, an implementation could make this even friendlier
>
>  Submission Failed
>
>  Submission to "http://example.com/submit" failed, with error-type  
> "result-media-type".
>  This means the server sent data of a type that cannot be processed. The  
> type reported was "application/pdf".
> )
>
> Steven

Received on Wednesday, 16 April 2014 13:09:23 UTC