Re: Using Struts Validator on Map-backed ActionForms

2005-02-13 Thread Niall Pemberton
Waite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Using Struts Validator on Map-backed ActionForms > Niall, > > Thanks again for the reply. I am afraid this is not going to work for > me, however. The proble

Re: Using Struts Validator on Map-backed ActionForms

2005-02-13 Thread Andrew Waite
Niall, Thanks again for the reply. I am afraid this is not going to work for me, however. The problem is I don't see how I can "do nothing different than normal validation". Normal validation requires the field names and validations to be declared in the validation.xml file. I do not know in ad

Re: Using Struts Validator on Map-backed ActionForms

2005-02-12 Thread Niall Pemberton
There isn't anything different you need to do from normal validation. http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/dev_validator.html The only issue you might hit is if you want to validate according to the Action Mapping's path, rather than the form name. Then you would need a custom ActionForm - but that

Re: Using Struts Validator on Map-backed ActionForms

2005-02-12 Thread Andrew Waite
Niall, Thanks for the response. This is looking promising - excellent work, btw. I have the Action and Struts communicating with this "form". Do you have any example of how to apply the Validaror against it? Looking for some samples but given how new this is it's hard to come by. Thanks, Andr

Re: Using Struts Validator on Map-backed ActionForms

2005-02-12 Thread Niall Pemberton
You could use a LazyDynaMap to do this (with Struts 1.2.4). LazyDynaMap is a "wrapper" for a Map. Because its not an ActionForm Struts will wrap it in a BeanValidatorForm, which you can use with Validator. Just specify it in the struts-config.xml for your form. In your action you can get the ac