I am having troubles getting my own validator to work, I wonder if it is the
classpath where I am pointing to my Class with? I am trying to create a
dateRange validation to determin if the date falls between two dates or not.
This is what I have in my validation.xml
> <field property="startDate" depends="required,date,dateRange">
> <arg0 key="Start Date" resource="false"/>
>
> <var><var-name>datePattern</var-name><var-value>MM/dd/yyyy</var-value></var>
>
> <var><var-name>minDate</var-name><var-value>07/01/2003</var-value></var>
>
> <var><var-name>maxDate</var-name><var-value>06/30/2004</var-value></var>
> </field>
> this is what I have in my validator-rules
> <validator name="dateRange"
> classname="gov.utah.dhs.pats.util.ValidationUtil"
> method="validateDateRange"
> methodParams="java.lang.Object,
> org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction,
> org.apache.commons.validator.Field,
> org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessages,
> javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest"
> depends=""
> msg="errors.dateRange"/>
> and my class looks like this, notice I have a println at the start of my
> program, it is like it is completely ignoring my class, I am clueless how to
> test this and to see what is really happening, I don't have much experience
> with struts so please any suggestions would help,thank you...
> package gov.utah.dhs.pats.util;
> import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
> import java.util.Date;
> import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
> import org.apache.commons.validator.Field;
> import org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction;
> import org.apache.commons.validator.util.ValidatorUtils;
> import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessages;
> import org.apache.struts.validator.Resources;
> public class ValidationUtil {
> public static final String DEFAULT_FORM_DATE_PATTERN = "M/dd/yyyy";
> public static final Date DEFAULT_MIN_DATE = getDefaultMinDate();
> public static final Date DEFAULT_MAX_DATE = getDefaultMaxDate();
> public static boolean validateDateRange(Object bean, ValidatorAction
> va, Field field, ActionMessages msg, HttpServletRequest request) {
> //if we're not properly configured to parse dates,
> //all date validation will fail
> System.out.println("!!!!!!!!!!!!!INSIDE THE VALIDATION UTILITY
> the FIELD.. " + field );
> if (DEFAULT_MIN_DATE == null || DEFAULT_MAX_DATE == null)
> return false;
> try {
> String value = ValidatorUtils.getValueAsString(bean,
> field.getProperty());
> Date date = getDate(value, DEFAULT_FORM_DATE_PATTERN);
> Date minDate = getDate(field.getVarValue("minDate"),
> DEFAULT_FORM_DATE_PATTERN);
> Date maxDate = getDate(field.getVarValue("maxDate"),
> DEFAULT_FORM_DATE_PATTERN);
> if (date.compareTo(minDate) < 0 || date.compareTo(maxDate) >
> 0) {
> msg.add(field.getKey().toString(),
> Resources.getActionMessage(request, va, field));
> return false;
> }
> return true;
> }
> catch (Exception e) {
> e.printStackTrace();
> msg.add(field.getKey().toString(),
> Resources.getActionMessage(request, va, field));
> return false;
> }
> }
>
> protected static Date getDate(String dateString, String pattern) {
> Date date = null;
> try {
> SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
> date = df.parse(dateString);
> }
> catch (Exception e) {
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
> return date;
> }
> protected static Date getDefaultMinDate() {
> return getDate("01/01/1900", DEFAULT_FORM_DATE_PATTERN);
> }
> protected static Date getDefaultMaxDate() {
> return getDate("12/31/2030", DEFAULT_FORM_DATE_PATTERN);
> }
> }
> if anyone can please just help guide me a bit on this I would appreciate it.
Dwight S. Galloway
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