I'm trying to do validation on my form struct in a method that returns a bool, but I keep getting false even when it should be returning true..
If you look towards the end of the Validate method, you'll see I write validated := len(this.Errors) == 0 which should be making "validated" either true or false based on whether the Errors map has items or not, and then I return validated.
When I fill out my form accurately, there should be no errors yet I still get false when I should be getting true.
Can someone explain? Is this not how Go works?
form.go:
package models
import (
"../config"
"../util"
)
type Form struct {
Name string
Email string
Phone string
Message string
Thanks string
ErrorHandler
}
func (this *Form) Validate() bool {
this.Errors = make(map[string]string)
matched := util.MatchRegexp(".+@.+\\..+", this.Email)
if !util.IsEmpty(this.Email) {
if matched == false {
this.Errors["Email"] = config.EMAIL_INVALID
}
} else {
this.Errors["Email"] = config.EMAIL_EMPTY
}
if util.IsEmpty(this.Name) {
this.Errors["Name"] = config.NAME_EMPTY
}
if util.IsEmpty(this.Phone) {
this.Errors["Phone"] = config.PHONE_EMPTY
}
if util.IsEmpty(this.Message) {
this.Errors["Message"] = config.MESSAGE_EMPTY
}
validated := len(this.Errors) == 0
if validated {
this.Thanks = config.THANK_YOU
}
return validated
}
errorhandler.go:
package models
type ErrorHandler struct {
Errors map[string]string
}
func (this *ErrorHandler) HandleErr(err string) {
this.Errors = make(map[string]string)
this.Errors["Error"] = err
}
And this is where I try to call the Validate method -- in a function in my controller:
form := &models.Form{
Name: r.FormValue("name"),
Email: r.FormValue("email"),
Phone: r.FormValue("phone"),
Message: r.FormValue("message")}
if form.Validate() {
// This never runs because 'form.Validate()' is always false
}
I don't think the util.IsEmpty() is the culprit here.. just checks if the string is empty:
func IsEmpty(str string) bool {
return strings.TrimSpace(str) == ""
}
Any help would be appreciated!
