Hi Greg, Try setting validate=true and input=<generic error.jsp> in your action mapping. This way if your form bean returns ActionError(s) Struts will return to the named input form to display errors (see html:error tag).
Jon. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Callaghan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 December 2001 00:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help:Handling Exceptions within Formbean Validate ??? Hi, With struts how is one supposed to handle exceptions which are caught within the validate method of a formbean? That is, how can you from here go to ones generic error page? Background - I have a case where the form (eg create new X) has some pull down lists which are dynamically generated. If the validate for the form fails therefore and I need to go back to the input jsp page with error, I DO NEED TO re-extract the dynamic pull down list data from within the validate method before it finishes (unless there is a better way?). If the database is down during this phase however an exception is caught within the validate method. Also as my JSP page expects the data present I get a null pointer exception in this situation hence the need to redirect to the normal error page I use for exceptions. Question is how to make this happen from within the validate method of the formbean? Any advice welcome. PS - I tried including a *.do for the input mapping, rather than the .jsp mapping, however the problem here the recent changes in the form (eg if you were doing an edit form) are not remembered. Eg if title was "xyz", then I changed it to "", this causes a validation error but when going back to the page via the action (cf directly to JSP) the end result is "xyz" is displayed not "". Regards Greg _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
