NAME

Net::Gnats::Command::VFLD

DESCRIPTION

VFLD can be used to validate a given value for a field in the database. The client issues the VFLD command with the name of the field to validate as an argument. The server will either respond with 212 (CODE_SEND_TEXT), or 410 (CODE_INVALID_FIELD_NAME) if the specified field does not exist.

Once the 212 response is received from the server, the client should then send the line(s) of text to be validated, using the normal quoting mechanism described for PRs. The final line of text is followed by a line containing a single period, again as when sending PR text.

The server will then either respond with 210 (CODE_OK), indicating that the text is acceptable, or one or more error codes describing the problems with the field contents.

PROTOCOL

 VFLD <Field>
 <Field contents>

RESPONSES

CODE_SEND_TEXT CODE_INVALID_FIELD_NAME