Wouldn't it be better to get rid of this in 1.3 with the move to Chain?
Doesn't everything get thrown up in the air and re-defined at that point
including Action's being deprecated in favour of objects that just implement
the Command interface?
Niall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: ActionForm.validateForm(...) to replace
ActionForm.validate(...)
> We did just get Commons Resources promoted out of the sandbox, and I'm
> hopeful that we'll get that puppy released soon. Finally!
>
> --
> Martin Cooper
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:37:38 -0800 (PST), David Graham
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We didn't do it earlier because we wanted to use commons-resources for
> > message passing. That hasn't happened so we may as well add the
> > validateForm() method and deprecate validate().
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > In order to push forward on full deprecation of ActionErrors, I
> > > propose adding the following method to ActionForm:
> > >
> > > public ActionMessages validateForm(ActionMapping mapping,
> > > HttpServletRequest
request) {
> > >
> > > return validate(mapping, request);
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > and then changing one line in the Request Processing chain:
> > >
> > > ActionMessages errors = form.validate(mapping, request);
> > > to
> > > ActionMessages errors = form.validateForm(mapping, request);
> > >
> > > I'm not sure now why we haven't done this earlier. Someone suggested
> > > it on one of the lists a while ago and it seemed clear once I saw it,
> > > but I haven't had time to do anything about it.
> > >
> > > My inclination is to do this only on the 1.3 (HEAD) branch, and to
> > > make the change in RequestProcessor.java even though it is slated for
> > > obsolescence, and then also to make the change in
> > > o.a.s.chain.AbstractValidateActionForm (which actually still uses
> > > ActionErrors, actually.)
> > >
> > > If it didn't seem strange that it hasn't been done already, I might
> > > have just gone ahead and done it without raising the question -- so
> > > I'm wondering if I'm missing something?
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > > --
> > > Joe Germuska
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