I've been using the Validator for going on three years now, but I don't think I would ever want to describe it as an integal part of Struts. Struts provides a validation hotspot, and we provide the Validation as something people can plug into that spot. But we want to be very clear that it is only one of many possible solutions to validation.
We provide direct support for the Validator as a convenience, but IMHO, it is not part of the true Struts core. (Of course, I don't consider the tags part of the true Struts core either =:) I'd also be very cold on amending the struts-config with the specifics for any optional component, the Validator included. Ideally, the Validation config could be shared with other platforms (not just Struts), and should be a standalone file. As mentioned elsewhere, there were two classes since some people (or maybe one person) wanted to key on the action path rather than the action attribute. But if we were patch this to use a switch, mores the better. -Ted. 10/25/2002 10:34:52 AM, David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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. y >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 > > > > > >______________________________________________________________ ___ >Unlimited Internet access -- and 2 months free! Try MSN. >http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/2monthsfree.asp > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
