Validator Integration

[David Graham]

It struck me the other day that the validator could be further integrated into struts. I'm not sure about my ideas so I want to get your thoughts. Why should people need to subclass ValidatorActionForm instead of ActionForm to use the validator? What forms have you built that didn't need validation?

My idea is that the ValidatorActionForm and ValidatorForm (why are there 2?) behavior should be included in ActionForm and have those classes removed. I think this will maintain backward compatibility because if the developer hasn't defined any validation rules for a form then we could return null from validate().

Further, we could include validator configuration tags in struts-config.xml instead of using a plugin. This would signify that validator is an integral piece of struts that most people want to use (which I believe they do).

This is probably a post 1.1 idea but I thought I'd throw it out here.
What do you think?

David





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