Why Is There No Clientvalidateattribute() In Cuniquevalidator?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi all,

I started using the unique validator on a new project. My form uses both enableAjaxValidation and enableClientValidation. I noticed that the unique validator is not used for client validation (the clientValidateAttribute() method isn’t overriden in CUniqueValidator).

Before I extend CUniqueValidator and implement clientValidateAttribute(), was there any design/illogical reasons why a clientValidateAttribute() method not being implemented for CUniqueValidator? The only forum post discussing this was in German (used Google Translate, but my question wasn’t answered).

Thanks!

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It’s because CUniqueValidator has to access the DB in the server. :)