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D Web Development

You're reading from   D Web Development Leverage the power of D and the vibe.d framework to develop web applications that are incredibly fast

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785288890
Length 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kai Nacke Kai Nacke
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Your First Web Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Templates for Your Web Pages 3. Get Interactive – Forms and Flow Control 4. Easy Forms with the Web Framework 5. Accessing a Database 6. Using the REST Interface 7. The vibe.d Internals 8. Using vibe.d with a GUI Client 9. Power Your Application with vibe.d Extensions Index

Validating user input


With the use of the web framework, the application implicitly checks that the form fields for the topic and content text are present. The check happens at the time the framework populates the FormData struct with the values of the form fields. There is no way to display this error yet. If you remove one of the form fields and run the application, then the application seems to crash. As the same approach is used to validate user input, we need to fix this.

Displaying error messages with @errorDisplay

If an error occurs, then a web page must be rendered to show the error message. You use the @errorDisplay annotation to define the function to be called in order to display the error:

@errorDisplay!getError
void createNewNote(FormData form) { /* ... */ }

The getError() method takes a _error parameter, which receives information about the error. In the simplest cases, the type of the parameter is string and contains an error message. Note the underscore in the parameter name...

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