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I'm trying to have a custom validation to one of my Magento 2 form fields that is generated via ui-components.
I know that I can make the value required by adding a validation item in the config.
Like this:

   <field name="title">
        <argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
            <item name="config" xsi:type="array">
                <item name="dataType" xsi:type="string">text</item>
                <item name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Some label here</item>
                <item name="formElement" xsi:type="string">input</item>
                <item name="source" xsi:type="string">whatever</item>
                <item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">999</item>
                <item name="dataScope" xsi:type="string">whatever</item>
                <item name="validation" xsi:type="array">
                    <item name="required-entry" xsi:type="boolean">true</item><!-- this validates it as required -->
                </item>
            </item>
        </argument>
    </field>

What do I need to add inside the validation item and where do I place the js code that should validate my field based on custom conditions?
For example I want it to match a certain regex.

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Basically I was able to find the answer to this from the last comment that Marius gave.

As he said the validation for forms generated by or with the help of the ui component are validated by the /Magent‌​o/Ui/view/base/web/j‌​s/lib/validation/val‌​idator.js 'module'. Now this module has anaddRule() function that is exactly what we need.

After adding the custom validation in the xml of your form:

<field name="title">
        <argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
            <item name="config" xsi:type="array">
                <item name="dataType" xsi:type="string">text</item>
                <item name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Some label here</item>
                <item name="formElement" xsi:type="string">input</item>
                <item name="source" xsi:type="string">whatever</item>
                <item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">999</item>
                <item name="dataScope" xsi:type="string">whatever</item>
                <item name="validation" xsi:type="array">
                    <item name="custom-validation" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
                </item>
            </item>
        </argument>
    </field>

We must make a script that requires this 'module' and with the help of the addRule will add our custom validation:

[Namspace]/[Module]/view/[area]/web/js/our_custom_validation.js

   require(
        [
            'Magento_Ui/js/lib/validation/validator',
            'jquery',
            'mage/translate'
    ], function(validator, $){

            validator.addRule(
                'custom-validation',
                function (value) {
                    //return true or false based on your logic

                }
                ,$.mage.__('Custom Validation message.')
            );
});

Now this is not enough. We must include this file on the page that holds the form we want to validate.

We do so in the following manner: Let's say we want to add this to the customer_index_edit the [area] about will be [adminhtml] and we add the following file: [Namespace]/[Module]/view/adminhtml/layout/customer_index_edit.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" layout="admin-2columns-left" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <head>
        <link src="Namespace_Module::js/our_custom_validation.js"/>
    </head>
</page>

Do not forget to clean your cache deploy static content.

Hope this helps.

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From what I understood

So you can add your custom validation like this:

<item name="validation" xsi:type="array">
    <item name="required-entry" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
    <item name="validate-regexp" xsi:type="string">REGEXP</item>
</item>

So here REGEXP needs to be a regular expression.

Then you will have to declare your own custom validation script to be able to handle validate-regexp

require([
'jquery', // jquery Library
'jquery/ui', // Jquery UI Library
'jquery/validate', // Jquery Validation Library
'mage/translate' // Magento text translate (Validation message translte as per language)
], function($){ 
$.validator.addMethod(
'validate-regexp', function (value, params) { 
return value.test(params); // Validation logic here
}, $.mage.__('Enter Valid Field'));

});

NB: it may be params.test(value) instead of value.test(params)

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  • this makes sense, but how do I include my js validator in the page? Or where should I put my validation js? It's not like I can use <script scr="" somewhere in the page. – Marius♦ Oct 7 '16 at 5:35
  • @Marius can't you just include the JS in your page ? I mean create a JS file and include it in the head ? – Raphael at Digital Pianism Oct 7 '16 at 7:34
  • hmm...shouldn't that be done somehow via require js, when using my component? I don't know. I will try that, but it feels somehow dirty. Because for example the default validation js file is not included in the head. Only require.js and requirejs-config. – Marius♦ Oct 7 '16 at 7:37
  • @Marius yeah I probably talked too fast. Still not used to all those require stuff – Raphael at Digital Pianism Oct 7 '16 at 7:40
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    I think I found something but nor sure. Using $.validator.addMethod may work only for forms that are not built via ui components. Fo ui-components the validation is done via https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/2.1/app/code/Magento/Ui/view/base/web/js/lib/validation/validator.js that uses https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/2.1/app/code/Magento/Ui/view/base/web/js/lib/validation/rules.js. I think I need to find a way to extend this. – Marius♦ Oct 7 '16 at 8:35

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