Take a look in FieldChecks to see how other validators work: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-struts/src/share/org/apache/struts/validator/
Having said that, returning "false" just stops the validation from proceeding for that field, you need to add an error message - looks to me like you need to add ActionMessages to your validateDate() method Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anna Kerekes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 3:42 PM Subject: validator-rules.xml behaviour Hello, I am trying to add my own custom validation method to my validator-rules.xml file. Here's the new snippet I am adding (Validator is a utility class I wrote to perform extra validation): <validator name="dateCheck" classname="com.onx.usermanager.util.Validator" method="validateDate" methodParams="java.lang.Object" msg="error.date.invalid" /> I have tried debugging my code, the validator does indeed go into my validateDate method and returns a boolean=false. However, contrary to what I believed was going to happen, it does not throw the error.date.invalid ........is this not what is supposed to happen by default if the validator returns a false boolean? I think everything else is fine, in my jsp I have <td><html:errors property="date"/></td> and in my validation.xml: <field property="date" depends="dateCheck"> </field> and in my ApplicationResources.properties file I have: error.date.invalid=<li><font color="red">End Date must be after Start Date</font></li> Please help me, any help is appreciated, you can email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED], thanks, Anna p.s. I can do other validations with my xml files fine, it is just this custom one not working... --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
