Did you add a "page" property to your DynaValidatorAction form definition in
the struts-config.xml?
Niall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean A. Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 3:15 PM
Subject: wizard best practices?
> I've been reading books, the internet, this list, and
> experimenting, attempting to build a model for
> best practice for a wizard utilizing struts 1.1 and
> DynaValidatorAction. I've got a simple model
> working but validation does not work. In other
> words, the validator framework does not seem to
> be doing its thing. I've recently used DynaValidatorAction
> on single forms with great success. The other thing
> I am wondering about, assuming the Validator
> will validate, is once the code runs the
> Action, I'd like to be able to do secondary
> validation based on business logic. This means
> I would need to get the page number, and I am
> not sure I understand how this works. I have a hidden
> field on each form in the wizard for page. This
> presumably works in conjuction with the field
> page attribute in the validation config file. If someone
> can explain how I can complete this thing, I would
> be grateful. Also, maybe this example could be added
> to the struts website as I have to believe I am not the
> only one struggling with this.
>
> Many thanks.
> Dean Hoover
>
> Here are the files:
>
> === struts-config.xml ===
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD
> Struts Configuration 1.0//EN"
> "http:/jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">
>
> <struts-config>
> <form-beans>
> <form-bean name="MyWizard"
> type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm">
> <form-property name="x" type="java.lang.String"/>
> <form-property name="y" type="java.lang.String"/>
> <form-property name="z" type="java.lang.String"/>
>
> <form-property name="method" type="java.lang.String"/>
> </form-bean>
>
> </form-beans>
>
> <action-mappings>
>
> <action path="/mywizard1"
> type="MyWizardAction"
> name="MyWizard"
> scope="session"
> input="/mywizard1.jsp"
> parameter="method"
> validate="true">
>
> <forward name="next" path="/mywizard2.jsp"/>
> <forward name="cancel" path="/mywizardcancel.html"/>
> </action>
>
> <action path="/mywizard2"
> type="MyWizardAction"
> name="MyWizard"
> scope="session"
> input="/mywizard2.jsp"
> parameter="method"
> validate="true">
>
> <forward name="previous" path="/mywizard1.jsp"/>
> <forward name="next" path="/mywizard3.jsp"/>
> <forward name="cancel" path="/mywizardcancel.jsp"/>
> </action>
>
> <action path="/mywizard3"
> type="MyWizardAction"
> name="MyWizard"
> scope="session"
> input="/mywizard3.jsp"
> parameter="method"
> validate="true">
>
> <forward name="previous" path="/mywizard2.jsp"/>
> <forward name="finish" path="/mywizarddone.jsp"/>
> <forward name="cancel" path="/mywizardcancel.jsp"/>
> </action>
>
> </action-mappings>
>
> <message-resources parameter="resources.application"/>
>
> <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
> <set-property property="pathnames"
> value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,
> /WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>
> </plug-in>
>
> </struts-config>
> === validation.xml ===
> <form-validation>
> <formset>
> <form name="MyWizard">
> <!-- page 1 -->
> <field property="x" page="1" depends="required"/>
>
> <!-- page 2 -->
> <field property="y" page="2" depends="required"/>
>
> <!-- page 3 -->
> <field property="z" page="3" depends="required"/>
> </form>
> </formset>
> </form-validation>
> === mywizard1.jsp ===
> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>
> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
> <html:html>
> <body>
> <h3>Page 1</h3>
> <html:errors/>
> <html:form method="post" action="/mywizard1.do">
> <html:hidden property="page" value="1"/>
> x = <html:text property="x"/>
> <html:submit property="method"><bean:message
> key="button.next"/></html:submit>
> <html:submit property="method"><bean:message
> key="button.cancel"/></html:submit>
> </html:form>
> </body>
> </html:html>
> === mywizard2.jsp ===
> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>
> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
> <html:html>
> <body>
> <h3>Page 2</h3>
> <html:errors/>
> <html:form method="post" action="/mywizard2.do">
> <html:hidden property="page" value="2"/>
> y = <html:text property="y"/>
> <html:submit property="method"><bean:message
> key="button.previous"/></html:submit>
> <html:submit property="method"><bean:message
> key="button.next"/></html:submit>
> <html:submit property="method"><bean:message
> key="button.cancel"/></html:submit>
> </html:form>
> </body>
> </html:html>
> === mywizard3.jsp ===
> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>
> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
> <html:html>
> <body>
> <h3>Page 3</h3>
> <html:errors/>
> <html:form method="post" action="/mywizard3.do">
> <html:hidden property="page" value="3"/>
> z = <html:text property="z"/>
> <html:submit property="method"><bean:message
> key="button.previous"/></html:submit>
> <html:submit property="method"><bean:message
> key="button.finish"/></html:submit>
> <html:submit property="method"><bean:message
> key="button.cancel"/></html:submit>
> </html:form>
> </body>
> </html:html>
> === mywizarddone.jsp ===
> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>
> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
> <html:html>
> <body>
> x = <bean:write name="MyWizard" property="x"/><br/>
> y = <bean:write name="MyWizard" property="y"/><br/>
> z = <bean:write name="MyWizard" property="z"/><br/>
> </body>
> </html:html>
> === mywizardcanel.jsp ===
> <html><body>CANCEL</body></html>
> === MyWizardAction.java ===
> import java.util.*;
>
> public class MyWizardAction extends LookupDispatchAction
> {
> protected Map getKeyMethodMap()
> {
> Map map = new HashMap();
> map.put("button.next", "next");
> map.put("button.previous", "previous");
> map.put("button.finish", "finish");
> map.put("button.cancel", "cancel");
> return map;
> }
>
> public ActionForward next
> (
> ActionMapping mapping,
> ActionForm form,
> HttpServletRequest request,
> HttpServletResponse response
> )
> {
> // passed the validator stuff, what if we wanted to do some
> // business layer validation at this stage, based on 'page'?
>
> return mapping.findForward("next");
> }
>
> public ActionForward previous
> (
> ActionMapping mapping,
> ActionForm form,
> HttpServletRequest request,
> HttpServletResponse response
> )
> {
> return mapping.findForward("previous");
> }
>
> public ActionForward finish
> (
> ActionMapping mapping,
> ActionForm form,
> HttpServletRequest request,
> HttpServletResponse response
> )
> {
> return mapping.findForward("finish");
> }
>
> public ActionForward cancel
> (
> ActionMapping mapping,
> ActionForm form,
> HttpServletRequest request,
> HttpServletResponse response
> )
> {
> return mapping.findForward("cancel");
> }
> }
>
>
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