Enhancement: Reset option/Skip validation

[santoshgiridhar]

Is it possible to skip the validation on click of reset button or restore default values?
While using can.map.validate

doReset: function () {
                    this.attr('myVal','');
                    this.attr('myNum','');
                }

[Macrofig]

Ohhh that's a good use case. Can't believe I haven't seen that one yet. So I like to write these out in the Gherkin syntax, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong...

Given a property has validate options
when the property's value is valid
when the property is "reset"
I expect validation to return no errors.

Given a property has validate options
when the property's value is invalid
when the property is "reset"
I expect the errors for the property to be cleared.

[Macrofig]

One possible solution, and the one I'm leaning towards, is having a preFlight method that runs a callback. In the callback, you can do any checks you need to do and return a boolean. If false, can-validate will not run any validate calls and just allows the setter to do its thing. If true then we continue to validate the new value.

Thoughts?

[santoshgiridhar]

preFlight method sounds good.
A Boolean value to run validate on demand makes more sense.