Installing validators when installing another module
Gary Feldman - June 29, 2009 - 22:21
| Project: | Validation API |
| Version: | 6.x-1.0 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
If I understand the current mechanism correctly, in order to have my module install validators, the supported approach is to write a hook which will then be called by visiting the import tab.
That's more work than should be needed to install a module, plus it will be error prone. There's no guarantee that the person installing the module on a site will actually do the validator import.
It strikes me that it would be easy to factor out the bulk of validation_api_admin_import_form_submit into a new function, so that it would just be
function validation_api_admin_import_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
// Run the given, and set it up to be in a valid state.
$validators = eval($form_state['values']['code']);
validation_api_admin_import_array($validators);
}and then the new function validation_api_admin_import_array would contain the rest of the original validation_api_admin_import_form_submit function. Instead of writing a hook-style function, my module_install function could just call validation_api_admin_import_array directly.
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On second look, maybe all that's needed is to rename _validation_api_import to be a published function. I think validation_api_admin_import_form_submit just deals with stuff from the form processing before passing it on.