Thanks for the reply. I had just moved my validation code out of the Action
to clean it up a bit. I hadn't thought of calling validate() from the
action, though.
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From: Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Recovering from form validation errors
> At 10:46 AM -0400 2002/07/05, Michael wrote:
> >I am validating fields in my ActionForm using the validate() method.
> >Upon finding errors, I return a populated ActionErrors object. When
> >the thread of control is passed back to the input JSP, a List of
> >users used to populate an html:select is no longer in the request
> >object (since this is a new request at this point). Since I never
> >get to my Action class, I don't get the List populated.
> >
> >I really don't want to put the List of users on the session if I can
> >avoid it, since the List really should be re-built with each request.
> >
> >Is there a "best-practices" way to deal with this problem?
>
> set validate="false" in struts-config and do that validation in your
> action instead. You can still call the validate method on the form,
> of course, and then you have the opportunity to repopulate the
> request with that list.
>
> There's no other work around that I'm aware of. Your situation
> falls outside of what the pre-action validation is supposed to handle.
>
> Joe
>
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