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[PathField] What is difference between maskRe, regex, stripCharsRe config option of Class CQ.form.PathField.

  • December 2, 2015
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Hi Community

I was going through the documentation Link:- https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6/widgets-api/index.html?class=CQ.form.PathField .

I am bit confuse between maskRe, regex, stripCharsRe config options. If some body could explain me  these three with an example.

Thanks and Regards

Kautuk Sahni

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    Best answer by ghhutch

    maskRe is supposed to prevent certain characters from being entered into a field.  I tried to get it working on a textfield but was unsuccessful due to a JS error.  Basically you're supposed to be able to add a the property such as maskRe=/[a-zA-Z\s]*/ and this example will prevent any char other than letters and spaces from being entered into the field.

    According to the docs (https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6-1/widgets-api/index.html?class=CQ.form.PathField):

    • maskRe : filter out keystrokes before any validation occurs

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    edubey
    edubey
    Level 10
    December 2, 2015

    Hi Kautuk

    regex: Take a look at my latest article published 1 hour back http://adobeaemclub.com/simple-way-to-restrict-image-type-in-pathfield-xtype/

    stripCharsRe: If you want to remove some text from the value selected in Path field. To the above article if you add property with name stripCharsRe with  value /content/  . After this if you select /content/dam/geometrixx/banners/banner-mono.png, in path field you will see only dam/geometrixx/banners/banner-mono.png as you are instructing aem to strip /content/

    for maskRe : I will get back to you with better example

    Thanks

      G
      Adobe Employee
      ghhutchAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
      Adobe Employee
      December 4, 2015

      maskRe is supposed to prevent certain characters from being entered into a field.  I tried to get it working on a textfield but was unsuccessful due to a JS error.  Basically you're supposed to be able to add a the property such as maskRe=/[a-zA-Z\s]*/ and this example will prevent any char other than letters and spaces from being entered into the field.

      According to the docs (https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6-1/widgets-api/index.html?class=CQ.form.PathField):

      • maskRe : filter out keystrokes before any validation occurs
        kautuk_sahni
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        kautuk_sahniCommunity ManagerAuthor
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        December 7, 2015

        Hi Praveen, Graham

        This really help. Thank you for the detail answer. 

        Thanks and Regards

        Kautuk Sahni

        Kautuk Sahni
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        jason_porter1
        August 17, 2016

        I managed to get around the error by setting maskRe as a function, like the following:

        maskRe="function(){return eval('/\\\\d/')}()"

        It looks like in CQ.utils.Util.formatData only the 'regex' field is evaluated, not maskRe.

        Hopefully that helps someone!

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