Re: Date Validation

Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:42:11 -0700

The commons-validator date validation indeed, can only validate a single date pattern. Joe Hertz made a good point that you must have the multi-format parsing problem solved, so subclassing a ValidatorForm will probably be a good solution.

However, I don't understand your other comment: 
I don't have the javascript validation available because I'm using
ValidatorActionForm.  It seems like my options are to switch to
ValidatorForm or code javascript in the JSP.

the javascript is independent of whether you are using ValidatorActionForm or ValidatorForm (don't worry, this is one of the things that confuses a lot of people.) You can specify the action path in the <html:javascript> tag instead of the form name, and the javascript tag will work fine -- basically, html:javascript looks for the literal value from "<form name="..."> in the Validator XML config -- whether it be a form name (ValidatorForm, DynaValidatorForm) or an action path (ValidatorActionForm, DynaValidatorActionForm).

Hope that  helps,
        Joe


At 11:58 AM -0400 8/24/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
When I search the archive I get no results for the word "date" so here
goes.

I've been using the validation plug-in to validate the date format of
MM/dd/yyyy.  A new requirement is to allow the user to enter a date in one
of several formats(mmddyy, mm/dd/yyyy, and others).  Can the validator do
this or will I have to write my own validation?  I tried multiple
datePattern vars in the validation.xml but as expected only one worked.  I
don't have the javascript validation available because I'm using
ValidatorActionForm.  It seems like my options are to switch to
ValidatorForm or code javascript in the JSP.  Experienced opinions would be
appreciated as I'm learning as I go here.

Thanks,
Bart


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