When your application creates a marker, the only information you are required to provide is a value to the key property. You may prefer that your markers conform to stricter standards; for example, that all markers must have a key value at least six characters long. Or, your validation requirements may be based on application-specific business logic that is unrelated to marker properties. Create a validation class that enforces the validation standards appropriate for your markers.
The validation standards you define might vary based on the type of marker: markers with key X must have a value for key and value, whereas markers with key Y must have a Date value for expirationDate, which is a custom property. You must match each validation component to a key; there is no way to create one validation component for all markers created by a given marker manager.
Follow these steps to define new validation standards:
Create a class for each set of validation standards. This class should implement the
atg.markers.MarkerValidatorContainerinterface. Create a component of each class.Update the marker manager
markerValidatorsmap property to use each validation component you defined. Set the key to the markerkeyvalue and thevalueto a validation component. For example:
markerValidators=X=/atg/KeyXValidator,Y=/atg/KeyYValidator
Set the marker manager
alwaysValidateproperty totrueonly if you have defined a validation component for each possiblekey. If not, keep this set tofalse: those markers that are mapped to validation components will use them regardless.If your validation standards require marker properties in addition to
key,value, anddatato be populated, add those property names to the marker manager componentrequiredExtendedPropertiesproperty.
