What does your action mapping look like in the struts-config? Also, I believe, by the time you are in the action validation will already be performed (once you have it working properly). So you don't have a call to validate() or anything to do with validation in the action.
-----Original Message----- From: Ranj Nadarajah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Struts Validation Question I've been trying to make validator work with our application. However, I've not been very successful. Here is what I did. Please let me know if I missed anything. I've created a form with firstName and LastName fields. The validator should see if that the form is not empty. Howver, when I don't fill in and submit, I get to the next page. I don't see the validator checking for errors and reporting. I followed the guidelines in http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/2912 1) Put the commons-validator.jar,jakarta-oro.jar and the struts.jar in the lib folder 2) Put the validator-rules.xml file in the web-inf directory. 3) created the validator.xml file in the web-inf directory and put the following in the validation.xml file: <form-validation> <!-- ========== Default Language Form Definitions ===================== --> <formset> <form name="com.gdm.form.FBOrder"> <field property="firstName" depends="required,minlength"> <arg0 key="orderForm.firstname.displayname"/> <arg1 name="minlength" key="${var:minlength}" resource="false"/> <var> <var-name>minLength</var-name> <var-value>5</var-value> </var> </field> </form> </formset> </form-validation> 4) Created the ActionForm class and extended it from validator.form 5) Called the ((FBOrder)form).validate(..) method from the action class 6) Created the following code in struts-config.xml <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn"> <set-property property="pathnames" vaue="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml, /WEB-INF/validation.xml" /> </plug-in> 7) put the following code in the jsp page. <logic:messagesPresent> <bean:message key="errors.header"/> <ul> <html:messages id="error"> <li><bean:write name="error"/></li> </html:messages> </ul><hr> </logic:messagesPresent> 7) Put the following in the applicationresources.properties file. button.cancel=Cancel button.confirm=Confirm button.reset=Reset button.save=Save # Errors errors.footer= errors.header=<h3><font color="red">Validation Error</font></h3>You must correct the following error(s) before proceeding: errors.ioException=I/O exception rendering error messages: {0} error.database.missing=<li>User database is missing, cannot validate logon credentials</li> errors.required={0} is required. errors.minlength={0} can not be less than {1} characters. errors.maxlength={0} can not be greater than {1} characters. errors.invalid={0} is invalid. errors.byte={0} must be an byte. errors.short={0} must be an short. errors.integer={0} must be an integer. errors.long={0} must be an long. errors.float={0} must be an float. errors.double={0} must be an double. errors.date={0} is not a date. errors.range={0} is not in the range {1} through {2}. errors.creditcard={0} is not a valid credit card number. errors.email={0} is an invalid e-mail address. #Order Form orderForm.firstname.displayname=First Name orderForm.lastname.displayname=Last Name _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
