Does the required option of the validator check to see if the field is null
or an empty string?  Maybe this is why my validations have been passing when
they shouldn't, because I initialize all my properties to "".
I hope I've finally found my problem!

- Keith


-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 5:20 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: More Validation Problems


wait til you graduate onto struts validator, you'll have a ball then ;)

Nathan Ewing wrote:
> Omg I figured it out :)
> 
> In my validation, to see if someone had filled in a required field I was
> checking to see if the field was null.  Because of this whenever the form
> displayed the bean would be created with null fields and errors would
display. 
> Then when I hit submit it would make the blank field "" instead of null so
I
> wouldn't get an error :)
> 
>    Nathan
> 
> 
> --- Nathan Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>Well I figured out why I was getting a validation error.  I was returning
a
>>null error if there were no errors.
>>
>>Unfortunately now I find my real problem.
>>
>>My form shows correctly (more or less), but if I hit submit instead of
just
>>popping back up with validation errors it goes to the Action class behind
it.
>>
>>Shouldn't it by default show my form, then if I enter wrong data just show
>>the
>>form again with the errors, and then if it passes with no errors it should
go
>>to the action class for processing?
>>
>>   Nathan
>>
>>
>>
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