--- Michael Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, my apologies if this is the wrong forum for my questions, but > I'm having trouble locating information about using Validator outside of > Struts. > My problem may stem directly from my misunderstanding of Validators' > capabilities, but as I understand it Validator can generate > error-messages from a pattern supplied by looking up the value of the > "msg" attribute in a Validator element (in the validator-rules.xml) in > the ValidatorResources instance. My question is: does Validator perform > this action itself (i.e. look up the error pattern and substitute the > argument values into the pattern and return the resulting string) - if > so, how do you invoke this? Or is this all left as an exercise for the > user?
Validator does not resolve message resource keys itself. It only provides the information to the surrounding application. This allows a framework like Struts to manage resources from multiple modules and multiple files. There is an example of using Validator in a standalone app. in the CVS /src/example directory. http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons/validator/src/example/org/apache/commons/validator/example/ David > I've looked through > http://home.earthlink.net/~dwinterfeldt/overview.html#validatingOutsideO > fStruts but it doesn't quite answer my question. Any thoughts or links > to relevant examples would be much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > MikeS > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
