jeff,
i *am* impressed. and the impression i get is that you have no interest
whatsoever in helping me solve my problem, except in as much as it gives you
a reason to spout off how much you know about the validation framework.
which i've already clarified, is of no use to me and my setup.
SHEESH!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kyser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: Help: ActionError - <html:errors /> does not expand
the{0}placeholder
> Sorry, Will, I missed the 1.0.2 reference. Have only worked with 1.1.3,
> and using the validation framework. In that situation, the
> validation.xml
> file is essentially a bridge between the validation rules (in
> validator-rules.xml)
> and the error messages in your resource bundle. And unless you'd
> created one, it wouldn't exist. It could be named anything really, as
> you
> specify its name in your struts-config.xml file:
>
> <plug-in
> className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
> <set-property property="pathnames"
> value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,
>
> /WEB-INF/validator-custom-rules.xml,
> ** /WEB-INF/validation.xml">
> </set-property>
> </plug-in>
>
> but i guess all that's not much help.
>
> -jeff
>
> On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 09:14 PM, w i l l i a m b o y d
> wrote:
>
> > thanks for your reply, jeff.
> >
> > i wasn't aware that struts 1.0.2 used a validation.xml file. there is
> > nothing like that anywhere on my system. besides, it's not the
> > validation
> > that is the problem. the validation is working fine. the problem is
> > that the
> > paramater being passed into the ActionError constructor isn't being
> > included
> > in the error message that is being output.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff Kyser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:06 AM
> > Subject: Re: Help: ActionError - <html:errors /> does not expand the
> > {0}placeholder
> >
> >
> >> So what does your validation.xml file look like w.r.t. the rule in
> >> question?
> >>
> >> -jeff
> >>
> >> On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 09:00 PM, w i l l i a m b o y d
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> hello all,
> >>>
> >>> developing on w98 with tomcat 3.2.24, mysql 3.23.36, struts 1.0.2,
> >>> jdk
> >>> 1.3.1., servlet 2.2. will be deploying on basically similar setup;
> >>> but
> >>> deployment os is xp.
> >>>
> >>> i got a jsp page that has a choice box that allows multiple choices.
> >>> i
> >>> set a
> >>> validation rule in my action form's validate method, that disallows
> >>> users
> >>> from selecting more options than permitted by my limit. if a user
> >>> goes
> >>> over
> >>> the limit the form doesn't get submitted. the validation rule is
> >>> checked
> >>> just fine; struts creates an error for it and adds it to the errors
> >>> collection. but the error message that is displayed on the input page
> >>> does
> >>> not contain the parameterized message as expected. instead, it shows
> >>> the
> >>> complete, unformatted message, exactly (minus an apostrophe) as it
> >>> appears
> >>> in the resource bundle! does anybody know what i'm overlooking? is
> >>> this a
> >>> bug in 1.0.2?
> >>>
> >>> here is what gets displayed (verbatim) on the input page after the
> >>> validation error is created:
> >>>
> >>> Sorry! Youve selected too many choices for {0}. (what happened
> >>> to my
> >>> apostrophe in "You've" ?)
> >>>
> >>> here is the appropriate line from my resource bundle:
> >>>
> >>> error.prefs.limit=Sorry! You've selected too many choices for
> >>> {0}.
> >>>
> >>> here is a snip from my form's validate method:
> >>> ...
> >>> ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
> >>> ...
> >>> if ( isTooManyPrefs ) {
> >>> ActionError prefMusicError = new ActionError(
> >>> "error.prefs.limit",
> >>> "Preferred Music" );
> >>> errors.add( "prefMusic", prefMusicError );
> >>>
> >>> }
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>> here are the results of me looping through prefMusicError.getValues()
> >>> inside
> >>> validate:
> >>>
> >>> error.prefs.limit's replacement value # 0: Preferred Music
> >>> error.prefs.limit's replacement value # 1: null
> >>> error.prefs.limit's replacement value # 2: null
> >>> error.prefs.limit's replacement value # 3: null
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> here is a snip from the input page that generates the validation
> >>> error
> >>> and
> >>> to which struts reports the error:
> >>>
> >>> ...
> >>> <td><html:errors /> </td>
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>> what's going on here? why doesn't struts format the message to
> >>> include
> >>> the
> >>> replacement value. it's obviously there! at least *i* can get at it
> >>> from the
> >>> object array that i get from ActionError.getValues()! please, help!
> >>> thanks
> >>> in advance.
> >>>
> >>> will
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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