Problem to Solve

In places where we want to have integration with other forms and stop them from submitting if there are invalid/required fields -- we want to be able to get at this information from inside and outside of DFV.

Proposed Solution

Add checkValidation and isValid methods to window.PodsDFV so that they can be called:

• Call validationMessages = window.PodsDFV.checkValidation( pod, itemId, formCounter ) before submit to run validation rules on current values (even if they have not changed and triggered a validation yet) and passes back the list of validationMessages that can be displayed in a modal/alert or in Block Editor publish message section or something later when we are ready for that
• Call window.PodsDFV.isValid( pod, itemId, formCounter ) after running checkValidation() to determine whether the form should be allowed to continue being submitted

Possible Workaround

Manually going through the field values from what we get from window.PodsDFV.getFieldValuesWithConfigs() and checking whether required is on for the field and then confirming whether the field is empty.

It's not a great solution but that's what the jquery.pods.js uses right now as a workaround for the submit() handling.

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