Fieldtype validate

We’ve not yet been able to reproduce on this end. Which third party fieldtype were you testing with?

In EE2.x the validate function was being called even if the field wasn’t required and the function returned TRUE if the data was empty. In the new version, it seems that validate isn’t being called when the value is empty

Example, taken from the text fieldtype:

function validate($data)
 {

  if ($data == '')
  {
   return TRUE;
  }