How to programmatically inspect if a field in a form has an error

Question

Say I have a custom field customField1 in the current transition screen and I have behaviours that may set that customField to error def customField1 = getFieldByName("customField1") customField1.setError("This field has an incorrect value") or customField1.clearError() is there a way to inspect the field to see if it currently has an error? may be something like customField1.hasError() that returns true if the field in the form is supposed to be showing an error like after the example above or false if the field is the form is not supposed to be showing an error like after the example above. Hope this makes sense. Thanks

jgiraldo1 · Answer

worse you can replace the error message with setHelpText('All is fine') and you end up with a field that returns isValid = True, a Help Text that says "All is fine", and still not be able to complete the transition

jgiraldo1 · Answer

So you can end up with fields for which you get isValid = true, but cant still complete the transition because you didnt clearError().

You can also end up with fields for which you get isValid = false, but you can complete the transition.

If we are meant to only use setError and clearError, then shouldnt there be a method to check if a field is in this Error state ?

jgiraldo1 · Answer

Looks like setError changes isValid to false, but clearError does NOT change isValid to true.

Also,

If you setValid to false, you can still complete the transition with the invalid entry.

Its just very strange the way this works