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Wow, nothing? :( Usually Niall will at least tell me that nobody cares :) - -chris On 10/1/2010 11:29 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: > All, > > 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] > - --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyrbg0ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PD73QCeKJ1yMStcSXf2zmjxZI7Vf2Ju NRwAoL9KqTrjllCW1jJhlLeoohCfxNLg =YBSz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
