just a work-around I came to think of: if you’re building with maven or ant, why not generate the validation.xml-files from a home made xml configuration file using xxl(t)?
such tasks are built-in in ant and for maven there’s the xml-maven-plugin. generate the files into the generated classes dir and presto. just my 2c mats > Från: Lukasz Lenart <lukaszlen...@apache.org> > Ämne: Re: Grouping same type validators > Datum: 5 maj 2014 10:17:09 CEST > Till: Struts Users Mailing List <user@struts.apache.org> > > > It isn't supported and I don't see simple way to achieve this. > > 2014-05-03 23:33 GMT+02:00 Antonio Sánchez <ads...@gmail.com>: >> Hello. >> >> in a middle sized application there may be hundreds of required fields, and >> maybe dozens of some other validator type, which are all very verbose to >> define. >> >> For instance: guess a big form with many required fields: >> >> <validator type="requiredstring"> >> <param name="fieldname">person.firstName</param> >> <message>First name is required.</message> >> </validator> >> <validator type="requiredstring"> >> <param name="fieldname">person.lastName</param> >> <message>Last name is required.</message> >> </validator> >> ... same for age... >> ... same for manymor... >> >> This is repeating the same pattern for both defining the validator and the >> corresponding message. >> >> Is it possible to abbreviate to something like (pseudo-language): >> >> <validator type="requiredstring"> >> <param name="fieldname">person.lastName, person.lastName, >> person.age, person.manymore</param> >> <message>[MATCHED_FIELDNAME] is required.</message> >> </validator> >> >> or >> >> <validator type="requiredstring"> >> <param name="fieldname">person.lastName, person.lastName, >> person.age, person.manymore</param> >> <message key="requiredField" /> >> </validator> >> >> and 'global.properties' having >> >> requiredField = [MATCHED_FIELDNAME] is required. >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
