If you accept input > 25 characters, then you are providing a value which does not mesh with the database constraints... there need to be front end checks to ensure that bad data is never presented to the backend.

Exactly. Apps built with bOP only get constraint violations for non-uniqueness or exists. Other constraint violations indicate a bug in the application.

The form field meta data is used in two ways: client side validation and server side validation. We never trust what the client sends us, but we try to give as much feedback as is reasonable (without resorting to JavaScript). That's what the maxsize argument is about. You know it, so might as well encode the HTML with it.

In reply to Re: Re: Separation of Presentation and Application/Business Logic by robnagler
in thread the trend of the presentation layer driving application logic by princepawn

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