Server side validation redirects to preview of page instead of back to edit when validation returns False

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Hello Xwiki users,

I’m calling some server side validation from a template file, the validation seems to be working but it redirects to the preview of the page instead of back to edit when validation returns False

Do I somehow need to tell xvalidate to redirect to the correct editor? The code works fine when placed in an AWM sheet but doesn’t seem to like being called from a template file.

This is how I include the validation in the template:

#set($mydoc = $xwiki.getDocument("Content Manager.Code.Form and Validation")) 
$mydoc.getRenderedContent()

Where “Content Manager.Code.Form and Validation” contains:

       <div class="xform">
            ## Iterate over the properties of the Content Manager Reduced Class
			#set($discard = $doc.use('Content Manager.Code.Content Manager Reduced Class'))
            #set($class = $doc.getObject('Content Manager.Code.Content Manager Reduced Class').xWikiClass)
            #foreach($prop in $class.properties)
                <b>$prop.prettyName</b>
                $doc.display($prop.getName())
            #end 
	    </div> 

    ## Invoke validation
    <input type="hidden" name="xvalidate" value="1" />
    ## Set the Groovy script which will be used for validation
    <input type="hidden" name="xvalidation" value="Content Manager.Code.Content Manager GroovyValidation" />

    #if(($xcontext.validationStatus.errors&&$xcontext.validationStatus.errors.size()>0)||($xcontext.validationStatus.exceptions&&$xcontext.validationStatus.exceptions.size()>0))
    <div class="validation-errors" style="border: 1px solid grey; padding: 10px;">
    This is a recap of all errors in this page (change the form to show errors only at the top or only next to the fields):

    #foreach($error in $xcontext.validationStatus.errors)
    <font color="red">$xwiki.parseMessage($error)</font><br />
    #end

    #foreach($exp in $xcontext.validationStatus.exceptions)
    <font color="red">$exp</font><br />
    #end
    </div>
    #end

Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks,
Ben

2

After some more investigating, it seems this is happening because I’m trying to call validation from WYSIWYG edit mode rather than Inline edit mode.

I assume I’m missing a call to something in the editWYSIWYG.vm

3

So I know what the fix needs to be, but I’m not sure how to implement it. Essentially xvalidate causes the editor to jump from WYSIWYG to INLINE.

If I hard code a #set($editor = 'wysiwyg') before the below bit of code in “edit.vm” this fixes the problem:

  #if("$!editor" == '')
    ## Normally no special characters should exist in the editor parameter, so this is just a protection measure.
    #set($editor = "$!{escapetool.xml($request.getParameter('editor'))}")
    #if($editor == '')
      ## Determine the sheets using the default document translation because objects are accessible only from the default translation.
      #if(!$services.sheet.getSheets($doc, $xcontext.action).isEmpty())
        #set($editor = 'inline')
      #elseif ($xwiki.editorPreference == 'wysiwyg' && $services.wysiwyg.isSyntaxSupported($tdoc.syntax.toIdString()))
        #set($editor = 'wysiwyg')
      #else
        #set($editor = 'wiki')
      #end
    #end
  #end
  #if($editor == 'inline')
    ## The inline editor uses the view layout, unlike the rest of the editors.
    #template('startpage.vm')
    #template('editinline.vm')
    #template('endpage.vm')
  #else

What is the correct way to set the editor back to “WYSIWYG” after it gets changed by xvalidate without hardcoding it?