Hi Guru's,
I am having issues with validating input fields, hopefully someone can explain to me what is going wrong because clearly I am doing something wrong 
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I have table in the Hana database which allows to enter materials, some of the fields contain weights and these must be entered in whole or decimal values with a maximum of two decimals. so in my hdbdd file I have an entry like this: "NET_DECL_WEIGHT: numbericDecimal;". This numbericDecimal type is defined as an decimal (type numbericDecimal: Decimal(8,2);).
So enough about the table definition, in my controller file I attached the validation handlers as follows:
// Attaching validation handlers
sap.ui.getCore().attachValidationError(function (oEvent) {
oEvent.getParameter("element").setValueState("Error");
alert("attachValidationError");
});
sap.ui.getCore().attachValidationSuccess(function(oEvent){
oEvent.getParameter("element").setValueState("None");
alert("attachValidationSuccess");
});
sap.ui.getCore().attachFormatError(function(oEvent){
oEvent.getParameter("element").setValueState("Error");
alert("attachFormatError");
});
sap.ui.getCore().attachParseError(function(oEvent){
oEvent.getParameter("element").setValueState("Error");
alert("attachParseError");
});
And in my XML view I created an input field as follows:
<Input value="{
path: 'NET_DECL_WEIGHT',
type:'sap.ui.model.odata.type.Decimal',
formatOptions: {
minIntegerDigits: 1,
minFractionDigits: 2,
maxFractionDigits: 2,
decimals: 2,
decimalSeparator: '.',
roundingMode: 'HALF_CEILING',
groupingEnabled: false
}
}" textAlign="Right" placeholder="{i18n>assignmentPlaceholderWeight}" description="{i18n>assignmentMaterialWeightDesc}" />
The problem is however that the "attachValidationError" event is raised as soon as I type an decimal value in the input field. A comma is seen as a separator and a dot as a decimal. so when I type "1234,5678" then the "attachValidationSuccess" event is raised and the data is converted into "12345678.00". But when I type "1234.5678" the "attachValidationError" event is raised.
Previously I tried the type "sap.ui.model.type.Float" and that one works fine, however, I couldn't save the data back into the database which is caused (I assume) by the fact that the datafield in Hana is a Decimal and I Could not find a way to define it as a Float value.
I don't know if you need any more information, if so please let me know. I am still quiet new with these binding techniques but love to learn how to do this in a correct way since in the past I wrote seperate "onChange" functions for this which I like to avoid if possible.
Kind Regards,
Nico