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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 15:13:46 -0800
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Subject: Re: mx PostCode validator class
From: Omar Gonzalez <omarg.developer@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Justin Mclean <justin@classsoftware.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > But couldn't one component cover the logic of both the "us" way and the
> > "iso" way, using some sort of locale property?
> It could but then you end up will a very last case statement.
>
> Perhaps it better to be more flexible and:
> 1. Allow the format to be specified
> 2. Provide a method to return a suggested format for a locale
> 3. If the locale is not specified use the suggested format based on the
> current locale
>
> Reason being you may want to validate postcodes (or any else) for multiple
> locales not just the one you are currently in.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin


This makes perfect sense to me, and seems to fit in with the Spark
validators model where they have hooks to the new globalization APIs. I
need to spend some time figuring that out.

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Omar Gonzalez
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