From 4c59a7035b247b070e0ab919b2773029e66f2e72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joonas Lehtinen <joonas.lehtinen@itmill.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:19:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes ticket #1867 (Error message in Form is empty if
 required field is empty)

svn changeset:5038/svn branch:trunk
---
 src/com/itmill/toolkit/ui/AbstractField.java | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/com/itmill/toolkit/ui/AbstractField.java b/src/com/itmill/toolkit/ui/AbstractField.java
index 5d43a7d728..af0108a1d7 100644
--- a/src/com/itmill/toolkit/ui/AbstractField.java
+++ b/src/com/itmill/toolkit/ui/AbstractField.java
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractField extends AbstractComponent implements Field,
      * Required field.
      */
     private boolean required = false;
-    
+
     /**
      * The error message for the exception that is thrown when the field is
      * required but empty.
@@ -616,14 +616,14 @@ public abstract class AbstractField extends AbstractComponent implements Field,
 
         return true;
     }
-    
+
     /**
      * Checks the validity of the Validatable by validating the field with all
      * attached validators.
      * 
      * The "required" validation is a built-in validation feature. If the field
-     * is required, but empty, validation will throw an EmptyValueException
-     * with the error message set with setRequiredError().
+     * is required, but empty, validation will throw an EmptyValueException with
+     * the error message set with setRequiredError().
      * 
      * @see com.itmill.toolkit.data.Validatable#validate()
      */
@@ -729,7 +729,9 @@ public abstract class AbstractField extends AbstractComponent implements Field,
             try {
                 validate();
             } catch (Validator.InvalidValueException e) {
-                validationError = e;
+                if (!"".equals(e.getMessage())) {
+                    validationError = e;
+                }
             }
         }
 
@@ -1030,9 +1032,9 @@ public abstract class AbstractField extends AbstractComponent implements Field,
         this.required = required;
         requestRepaint();
     }
-    
+
     public void setRequiredError(String requiredMessage) {
-        this.requiredError = requiredMessage;
+        requiredError = requiredMessage;
         requestRepaint();
     }
 
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