Someone I know extended Exception and they throw
nested exceptions that eventually are passed back to
the Struts layer and then an ActionError is
constructed for each exception. Something like that
seems like a clean way to keep things separated. I
did something similiar on a project with a Swing and
EJBs.
David
--- James Hoffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What ideas do people have about where is the best
> place to perform validation of items that come back
> from ActionForms?
>
> Example: check to see if the user's choice of
> motherboard, memory, and cpu are compatible with
> each
> other.
>
> Following the struts example, it seems like the
> validate() method in an ActionForm is used only for
> light validation (i.e. checking to see if something
> was left blank, or checking for alpha and numeric
> chars). This approach seems correct to me, since
> there
> should not be business logic inside the ActionForm.
>
> That leaves most of the work to the business domain
> object since any nontrivial application will not
> have
> business logic in the Action class either.
>
> The business domain object, in many cases, will be
> accessed remotely from the Action class.
>
> Does it make sense for the business domain object to
> return an ActionErrors object(it is serializable)?
> I
> am not 100% comfortable yet with the idea of
> importing
> ActionErrors into the business object since it
> couples
> it to struts to a certain extent, and it could
> potentially be large.
>
> Is the only alternative to send back a list of
> generic
> error codes from the business object that each map
> to
> an ActionError and the Action class could add the
> ActionErrors? (i think i'd rather import
> actionerrors
> in this case)
>
> What are some of the "best practices" people have
> found to work for this problem?
>
> Craig and ALL Struts creators: Struts is really
> great. Thank you for all of your hard work. It is
> definitely something to be proud of.
>
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