More specific error messages #466
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I'm not sure what you mean about error messages on fields depopulating. You can see Rodauth's default behavior in the demo app (http://rodauth-demo.jeremyevans.net/create-account). Enter a bogus email address like The approach @janko showed for create account would also work for login, except you would override |
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Yes, I suppose those error messages went away when I created a custom login page. I suppose I should look at the source code for the demo to see how your error messages were implemented. What I meant about them "not coexisting" is that if you call the one (i.e. Thank you. |
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I'm still trying to figure out how those error messages are implemented. I can see on page inspection and in Bootstrap docs how the elements and styling themselves work, but I can't find where or how in the code those changes are being presented to the user, i.e. where the 422 is intercepted and new elements pushed to the newly-rendered forms. Could you please point me toward where I should be looking for those details? |
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I'm not sure what you mean by "new elements pushed to the newly-rendered forms". Rodauth deliberately does not use dynamic behavior for forms, it displays static HTML, and accepts regular HTML form submissions (in JSON mode, it accepts JSON requests and returns JSON responses). The related source code for the methods is https://github.com/jeremyevans/rodauth/blob/master/lib/rodauth/features/base.rb#L684-L704 For how it is used, you can look at one of the features that uses it, such as create_account: https://github.com/jeremyevans/rodauth/blob/master/lib/rodauth/features/create_account.rb#L47-L85 |
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Thank you for the links. My server-side code is doing the same thing I see there, but my view doesn't show the messages, highlighted inputs, &c. That's the part I'm trying to figure out. |
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For posterity, for anyone else like me who is building custom views for Rodauth, you pull the field errors via |
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Hello,
I am trying to set up more helpful error messages for the end user if, during account creation, there should be some specific error I can inform the user of, such as password complexity not being good enough, passwords not matching, username already being taken, or what have you. However, I'm confused as to best practices along these lines.
As of now, I'm doing the checks in
before_create_accountand usingthrow_error_status(422, 'username', 'username already taken')(as an example, yet the error message is always the default "There was an error creating your account", and no attempt to change this flash message or even see the arguments passed tothrow_error_statushas worked so far.Thank you for your time.
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