perhaps, you first thought seems to be valid.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gogineni, Pratima" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:44 AM
Subject: RE: validation
> On second thoughts ...I guess if there is some validation common to all
the
> actions its probably better to place it in the actionform even if it means
> looking at information outside the view/form itself?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gogineni, Pratima
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:41 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: validation
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a design question about validation in struts. So far I had been
doing
> most of my validation in my action classes rather than in my actionform.
>
> I was just looking into moving some of the validation into the validate
> method of the action form and find that I have to access some information
in
> the servlet context to do this since the action form itself does not have
> all the information to do the complete validation.
>
> I was thinking that this has a couple of problems -
> 1. performance since I have to access the same info again in the action
> classes.
> 2. I feel it is messy because I am making my actionform which is just a
> piece/view of the whole picture access information that is outside the
view
> itself ...
>
> All of the above leads me to believe that most of the heavy duty
validation
> should happen in the action class. The actionform only does some minor
> validation like maybe checking for null (basically just using the
> information it knows).
>
> I which case should we not have a validate method in the action classes
too?
>
> Please let me know if I am missing something / got something wrong ...
>
> Thanks
> Pratima
>
