Validation "is a valid date" does not pass but Apex proceeding anyway

Question

Hi,
I have a simple date-item which I validate first against "not null", then for "is a valid date", then that the date is not in the future.
In debug mode the first validation passes, the second ( is a valid date ) does not pass, but the validation process proceeds anyway...!? Then the third validation "date not in the future" produces ad DB-Error because it is not a valid date.
Why does the validation proceed even if the validation does not pass...?
Version 2.2.0
Juergen

Answer 1

Juergen,
"In debug mode the first validation passes, the second ( is a valid date ) does not pass, but the validation process proceeds anyway...!?"
Do you mean that the third validation is firing even though the second is failing? This behaviour is correct. All validations fire (regardless of any having already failed) unless they have specific conditions set on them to make them act differently.
If you don't want the third validation to fire if the second has failed then you will need to put a condition on the 3rd validation to prevent this. Alternatively you could bundle all you validations into one of type "PL/SQL returning Error Text" then have some IF...THEN...ELSE logic in your PL/SQL to return the relevant validatoin text depending on what the problem is (i.e. Date is null, date is invalid or date is in the future).
Andy