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Any suggestions? I've even considered using a multi-valued "msg" using a comma as a separator for the two. Something like this: msg="errors.xhtml.syntax, errors.xhtml.no-end-tag" Does anyone have any better ideas? Thanks, - -chris On 9/29/2010 2:09 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: > All, > > I've been happily using commons-validator 1.3.1 with Struts 1.3 for some > years, now, and I've recently developed my own custom validator that > checks for XHTML syntactic validity. Technically, it checks for XHTML > validity only when the input looks like this: "<html>....</html>": > everything else validates successfully with no actual XHTML syntax check. > > Recently, it became clear that users were sometimes forgetting the > "</html>" at the end of the input. This caused two problems: first, the > input wasn't being validated as XHTML, and second, when the data was > then displayed in a web page, it was escaped instead of being rendered > as actual HTML. > > My first instinct was to add a "mask" validator that checked for an > appropriate pattern (that is, "<html>" up front with no trailing > "</html>"). I implemented that and it works quite well. Then, it > occurred to me that I might want some other pattern for some reason for > those fields, and that the correct place for that check ought to be in > the XHTML validator itself. > > So I started moving the check described above into my custom validator. > Everything was fine until I had to render the error message. Since I'm > doing essentially two checks (one for <html> and matching </html>, and a > second for actually checking the XHTML syntax), I need two distinct > error messages. The configuration for a validator only allows one single > "msg" attribute as shown in my configuration below: > > <validator name="possibleXhtml" > classname="....PossibleXhtmlValidator" > method="validatePossibleXhtml" > methodParams="java.lang.Object, > org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction, > org.apache.commons.validator.Field, > org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessages, > org.apache.commons.validator.Validator, > javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest" > depends="" > msg="errors.xhtml" /> > > I could simply hard-code the error message key into the validator, but > that seems less maintainable than I'd like it to be. Is it possible to > provide more than one error message key to a validator like this? > > Other options for me include creating a custom validator that does > nothing but check for the <html>...</html> that won't interfere with, > say, the "mask" validator. > > It still seems to me that my goal ought to be a single validator that is > basically self-contained, rather than having two validators that > essentially /must/ be used together. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Thanks, > -chris - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyl/lsACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBxMACgu/27AnfqbXiUQX34SDr8CNuv MvcAoKEQd99aWbdr7NiXapWtwOuUIlQS =8jGf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
