+1 ---- Vic's on target when it comes to validating. This is an especially useful tactic when using DispatchActions for CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) actions.
Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vic Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ValidatorForm issue I allways say validate = false in mapping, and then manualy call it. Would that help? .V Bryce Fischer wrote: > I'm having a problem with a ValidatorForm and validation. The first time > I try to access the action below, I get a validation error. The form > never gets the opportunity to be filled in by the Action class (action > called is /fringe.do?method=edit). Is there any way to tell Struts to > not do validation unless we are saving? For example, calling > /fringe.do?method=save? I have solved it by overrideing the validate() > method, checking the parameters and seeing if "method = 'save'". > > I was wondering if this was the only way to accomplish this? I'd like to > be able to keep that kind of logic out of my form, and put it in the > validation.xml file, or another configuration file... > > Form: > > public class FringeForm extends ValidatorForm implements > java.io.Serializable { > private String field1; > > public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest > request) { > ActionErrors actionErrors = new ActionErrors(); > String method = request.getParameter("method"); > if ("save".equals(method)) { > actionErrors = super.validate(mapping, request); > } > return actionErrors; > } > > // getters and setters omitted for brevity > } > > Validation: > <form-validation> > <!-- > Define global validation config in validation-global.xml > --> > <formset> > <form name="fringeForm"> > <field property="field1" depends="required"> > <arg0 key="fringeForm.field1"/> > </field> > </form> > </formset> > </form-validation> > > And the action mapping looks like this (actual class extends > DispatchAction): > > <action > path="/fringe" > type="org.springframework.web.struts.DelegatingActionProxy" > name="fringeForm" > scope="request" > parameter="method" > input="/WEB-INF/pages/fringeForm.jsp" > > > <forward name="edit" path="/WEB-INF/pages/fringeForm.jsp"/> > <forward name="success" path="/index.jsp"/> > </action> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
