No its not used anywhere else at this point. I think this was a mistake when I originally coded the patch but I did have the thought that maybe it could be used in the future with generating the client side validations. Not having to specify the form name on the <html:javascript> tag would be good, especially if you implement some more complex logic for determining the validation key - maybe for example for one of the flavours of the dispatch actions.
To call this method you obviously need three things: the ValidatorForm, ActionMapping and Request. The <html:form> tag already gets hold of the ActionMapping (it just needs a small change to expose it) and instantiates a copy of the ActionForm if it doesn't exist, so for the current validator form implementations (which only need the getValidationKey() method and the mapping) this would work. Where it would fall down is when someone implements a strategy that uses either something in the Request or the populated contents of the ActionForm in order to determine the validation key because they are obviously not in the same state when the html page is rendered as they are when the form is posted back and the RequestProcessor calls the validate method. I guess for it to work in this scenario then the "rendering" mechanism would have to ensure that the same conditions do exist. Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Wessendorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:25 PM Subject: getValidationKey() Hi, just looked at DynaValidatorForm & DynaValidatorActionForm saw, DynaValidatorActionForm has no validate() more but getValidationKey() that returns the path... it is the overwritten method from DynaValidatorForm sawing also, that getValidationKey() gets trigered in DynaValidatorForm.validate() the same for ValidatorActionForm.java now my question, why is getValidationKey() public ? and not protected ? is this method in any other use? (i didn't found one...) Cheers, Matthias Weßendorf Aechterhoek 18 DE-48282 Emsdetten Germany Email: matthias AT wessendorf DOT net URL: http://www.wessendorf.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
