;-) Glad it helped. Nothing like having billions and billions of other
developers eyeballing your code...

Quoting Brian McSweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Reasons why people should love this list:
> 
> 1) People solve bugs for you that you didn't even know you had!
> 
> Thanks SO much Kris,
> I turned off javascript, and yes, I was ignoring the other validation
> errors. Your code made it work perfectly.
> I really appreciate your help,
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 02 July 2003 12:38
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: <html:errors/> problems
> 
> Brian,
> 
> Now that the messages are working, one other thing you might want to
> check is
> whether your validator-based validation errors are really being
> captured. The
> first few lines of your validate method look like they just ignore the
> result of
> calling super.validate:
> 
> public ActionErrors validate( ActionMapping mapping,
>                               HttpServletRequest request ) {
>   // this should call the validate on the automatic stuff
>   super.validate( mapping, request );
>   ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors(  );
>   ...
>   return errors;
> }
> 
> You probably want something more like:
> 
> public ActionErrors validate( ActionMapping mapping,
>                               HttpServletRequest request ) {
>   // this should call the validate on the automatic stuff
>   ActionErrors errors = super.validate( mapping, request );
>   if (errors == null) {
>     errors = new ActionErrors(  );
>   }
>   ...
>   return errors;
> }
> 
> Quoting Brian McSweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > IV,
> > 
> > >You want to have the message key in your ActionError and struts will
> > >resolve it from the ApplicationResources file for you. It is not
> > something >you manually need to do.
> > 
> > That was the problem! Thanks so much! I didn't have the message in my 
> > Resource bundle. Once I put it in, everything worked fine.
> > I really appreciate your help!
> > Brian
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: 02 July 2003 11:26
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: <html:errors/> problems
> > 
> > 
> > Brian, 
> > 
> > You want to have the message key in your ActionError and struts will
> > resolve it from the ApplicationResources file for you. It is not
> > something you manually need to do.
> > 
> > However last time I tried to return a value which was not in the
> > ApplicationResources file I got an exception thrown stating that it
> does
> > not exist. Returning blank sounds strange to me. Do you have a stack
> > trace saying that your message is not in this file?
> > 
> > Regards
> > IV
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >  from:    Brian McSweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >  date:    Wed, 02 Jul 2003 11:13:54
> > >  to:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >  subject: RE: <html:errors/> problems
> > > 
> > > Hi IV,
> > > Thanks for the help. I gave that a go, 
> > > Putting the error.stuff into my resource bundle.
> > > I am now getting back the bullet points for each 
> > > Error but still cannot see the messages at all!
> > > 
> > > This seems nuts to me, if I look at the ActionError
> > > constructor, it takes a string as it's parameter which 
> > > I presume is what it displays!
> > > 
> > > So my jsp is getting the ActionError (because it outputs 
> > > a bullet for the bullet list). However, it just can't seem 
> > > to display the string!
> > > 
> > > Any other ideas?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Brian
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > > Sent: 02 July 2003 10:40
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: <html:errors/> problems
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Brian,
> > > 
> > > I had a problem like that when I ommited the following values from
> my
> > > ApplicationResources file:
> > > 
> > >   errors.header = <ul>
> > >   errors.footer = </ul>
> > >   errors.prefix = <li>
> > >   errors.suffix = 
> > > 
> > > Once I added them it worked fine.
> > > 
> > > Regards 
> > > IV
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >  from:    Brian McSweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >  date:    Wed, 02 Jul 2003 10:28:03
> > > >  to:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >  subject: Re: <html:errors/> problems
> > > > 
> > > > Hi all, 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm trying to display errors on a jsp to which my form returns if
> > the
> > > > data submitted is invalid. 
> > > > 
> > > > My form extends org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorForm 
> > > > 
> > > > some fields use the validator form validation, but for custom
> server
> > > > side validation I overwrite the 
> > > > validate method as follows: 
> > > > 
> > > >    public ActionErrors validate( ActionMapping mapping,
> > > > HttpServletRequest request ) { 
> > > >        // this should call the validate on the automatic stuff 
> > > >        super.validate( mapping, request ); 
> > > >        ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors(  ); 
> > > > 
> > > >        customCheck1( getFormField1(),
> "messagebundle.customError1",
> > > > errors ); 
> > > >        customCheck2( getFormField2(),
> "messagebundle.customError2",
> > > > errors ); 
> > > > 
> > > >        return errors; 
> > > >    } 
> > > > 
> > > > then in the same class I have my custom methods, eg: 
> > > > 
> > > >    private void customCheck1( String value, String msg,
> ActionErrors
> > > > errors ) { 
> > > >        if ( value.equalsIgnoreCase("whatever") { 
> > > >            String message = ResourceBundle.getBundle( "mybundle"
> > > > ).getString( key ) 
> > > >            errors.add( ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR , new
> ActionError(
> > > > message ) ); 
> > > >        } 
> > > >    } 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Now, I know this is getting called, due to debug that I have
> > included.
> > > 
> > > > I'm successfully getting all the error messages from the resource
> > > bundle
> > > > etc. 
> > > > In my jsp I have the following tag to try to output the
> ActionError
> > > > messages 
> > > > 
> > > > <html:errors/> 
> > > > 
> > > > What's happening is, my jsp is being validated, but the messages
> > just
> > > > aren't 
> > > > getting outputted. I'm getting white space where the messages
> should
> > > be,
> > > > 
> > > > and when I look at the source I see that 
> > > > <br> lines are being created for (what I assume is) each
> > ActionError.
> > > > 
> > > > If anyone can give me advice/help, I'd really appreciate it. 
> > > > thanks, 
> > > > Brian
> 
> -- 
> Kris Schneider <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> D.O.Tech       <http://www.dotech.com/>

-- 
Kris Schneider <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
D.O.Tech       <http://www.dotech.com/>

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