Why don't we have an action based validator or at least allow for the validation to be either Action based or ActionForm based?
I like to keep my code clean and especially when it comes to repopulating collections for a jsp form it seems like there are a bunch of solutions that are non-standard and questionably effective at best. I was just thinking that it doesn't really matter where the validation is performed. Because, if you are preparing data that needs to be passed from the action into the business logic layer then wouldn't the Action be an appropriate place to allow validation. Validator is a great tools for common validation. I was just wondering why we don't have a validate method in the base Action class that does the same thing as the ActionForm. For example, before the execute method is called by the ActionServlet it would call validate in the Action. Isn't that essentially what is happening now with the validate method in the form? Before execute is called in the Action the validate is called in the ActionForm. I bring this up simply because there are times when validation may fail and we must return to a jsp page that requires prepopulated collections. Of course if those collecitons aren't there then the page breaks. I prefer not to be accessing my logic layers from within my ActionForm.validate metthod. But, the Action is a tidy place to keep such code so that it is easier to find. It seems to me that the validate method could easily be allowed in the Action too using the Validators automatic validation techniques. Right? DISCLAIMER: I know that I CAN create custom validations in my Action. I am just wondering why it doesn't call a validate method automagically :-D Brandon Goodin Phase Web and Multimedia P (406) 862-2245 F (406) 862-0354 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phase.ws -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
