The message handling will be in your custom validator - so without seeing how thats working its impossible to know why this isn't working for you.
Are you using this with Struts? If so, does the *standard* struts minlength validator work properly? Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Duff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:52 PM > Hi > > I am baffled to why the name and resource attributes in the arg and msg > seem not to work in my application. Surely someone has used validator > with a second argument, overridden the default message, or set resource > to false in their configuration. I was thinking that the problem I have > was of my making. > > Can someone please tell me why these attributes won't work on my > application? All the information that you will need is below: > > Thanks in advance, > David > > David Duff wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >That doesn't work for me. It keeps printing out the message I defined > >in validation-rules.xml minus the second arg because it is not defined > >anymore. > > > ><validator > > name="minlength" > >classname="com.company.product.controller.validator.CustomValidator" > > method="validateMinLength" > > methodParams="java.lang.Object, > > org.apache.commons.validator.Field" > > *msg="errors.min"*/> > > > >Is there any way to override this message with the one in validator.xml? > > > ><msg name="minlength" key="My Message" resource="false" /> > > > >Thanks in advance, > >DAvid > > > > > > > > > > > >Aaron Sheffey wrote: > > > > > > > >>If you want to print out a specific message for the validation, you can > >>add that to the field, too: > >> > >><field property="username" depends="required,minlength"> > >> <arg key="username"/> > >> <var><var-name>minlength</var-name><var-value>6</var-value></var> > >> <msg name="minlength" key="The minimum length for the User Name is > >>6" resource="false" /> > >></field> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>David Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>08/24/2005 12:09 PM > >>Please respond to > >>"Jakarta Commons Users List" <[email protected]> > >> > >> > >>To > >>Jakarta Commons Users List <[email protected]> > >>cc > >> > >>Subject > >>Re: Commons Validator problem > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>Hi, > >> > >>Thanks for the reply > >> > >>The msg I want to print out has two arguments: > >> > >>errors.min=The {0} must have at least {1} characters. > >> > >>This would leave: > >> > >>The user name must have at least {1} characters. > >> > >>I can get round the problem I'm having by specifying a value in the > >>resource like > >> > >><field property="username" depends="required,minlength"> > >> <arg key="user.username" position="0"/> > >> <arg key="user.min" position="1"/> > >> > >><var><var-name>minlength</var-name><var-value>6</var-value></var> > >> > >> </field> > >> > >>properties file: > >>user.min= 6 > >> > >>I would like to do it like it was specified in the user guides instead > >>of intoducing a workaround and having to input the value twice. Once in > >>the resource and another in the validator.xml. > >> > >>Thanks in advance. > >>David > >> > >>Aaron Sheffey wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>>You probably don't need to specify all the other stuff in the field. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Based > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>>on what I have done with mask, do something like > >>> > >>><field property="username" depends="required,minlength"> > >>> <arg key="username"/> > >>> <var><var-name>minlength</var-name><var-value>6</var-value></var> > >>></field> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>David Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>08/24/2005 11:43 AM > >>>Please respond to > >>>"Jakarta Commons Users List" <[email protected]> > >>> > >>> > >>>To > >>>[email protected] > >>>cc > >>> > >>>Subject > >>>Commons Validator problem > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I am trying to specify a min. length for a user name field in my > >>>application. > >>> > >>>In my validatior.xml I have specified: > >>> > >>>|<field property="username" depends="required,minlength"> > >>> <arg key="user.username" position="0"/> > >>> <arg name="minlength" key="${var:minlength}" resource="false" || > >>>position="1"||/> > >>> <var><var-name>minlength</var-name><var-value>6</var-value></var> > >>></field> > >>> > >>>In my validator-rules.xml I have: > >>> > >>><validator > >>> name="minlength" > >>>classname="com.company.product.controller.validator.CustomValidator" > >>> method="validateMinLength" > >>> methodParams="java.lang.Object, > >>> org.apache.commons.validator.Field" > >>> msg="errors.min"/> > >>> > >>>In my custom validator I have my validateMinLength() method. > >>> > >>>I would expect the two arguments (user.username and minlength) to get > >>>picked up but it only picks up the first argument even though ||I can > >>>see the two args in the field object||. When I remove the name > >>>attribute from arg, it will then pick up the second argument but look > >>>for the key in the resource even although resource is set to false. > >>> > >>>I am using commons-validator-1.1.4.jar| > >>> > >>>Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? > >>> > >>>Thanks in advance. > >>>David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
