[Maypole] 2.07 PR

[Tony Bowden]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:45:52AM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Well yesterday I wrote a handler for DateTime (actually 
> DateTime::Format::ISO8601). When you pass it an invalid date DT says 
> things like:
>   The 'month' parameter ("21") to DateTime::new did not pass the
>   'is between 1 and 12' callback
> which I think would be more helpful to the user than CGI::Untaint's:
>   time_of_record (1999-21-22) does not pass the is_valid() check

In your is_valid() method for the handler, just die with that error. The
"does not pass the is_valid()" message is just the default message if
you return false from is_valid. If you throw an exception it will DTRT.

Tony