I have read the Validator User Guide as well as chapter 12 in Struts In
Action.
I am trying to get a validator to validate a date field with no success.
When I post the form with "02/30/2005" or "02/33/2005" or "02/30/xyz"
it goes through without catching the bad date.
If however I do not put a 'name' field entry or a date entry at all, I
do get the javascript alert "required field" as expected.
Server side debugging, during the SaveAssignmentForm action the
AssignmentForm.validate() is called and the ActionErrors errs value is
not null which tells me it tried to validate, but there are no messages.
I have used SimpleDateFormat.parse("02/30/2005") in a separate test
script and it throws an exception as expected.
Using Struts 1.1
Snippets from my sources...
---
AssignmentForm.java
public class AssignmentForm extends ValidatorActionForm {
private String assignedDate;
.
public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping actionMapping,
HttpServletRequest request) {
ActionErrors errs = super.validate(actionMapping,
request);
return errs;
}
.
standard getter and setter for assignedDate.
---
AssignmentForm.jsp
<head>
<html:javascript formName="AssignmentForm"/>
...
<html:form action="SaveAssignmentForm"
onsubmit="validateAssignmentForm(this)">
<html:text property="name" maxlength="255" size="40"/>
<html:text property="assignedDate"></html:text>
----
struts-config.xml
<action name="AssignmentForm" path="/SaveAssignmentForm"
scope="request"
type="com.alarius.assignments.actions.SaveAssignmentForm"
validate="true">
<forward name="showAssignmentList" path="/ShowAssignmentList.do"/>
</action>
...
<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
<set-property property="pathnames"
value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml, /WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>
</plug-in>
---
validator-rules.xml - unchanged from distribution
---
validation.xml
<formset>
<!-- AssignmentForm -->
<form name="AssignmentForm">
<field property="name" depends="required">
<arg0 key="AssignmentForm.name" />
</field>
<field property="assignedDate" depends="required,date">
<arg0 key="AssignmentForm.assignedDate" />
<var>
<var-name>datePattern</var-name>
<var-value>MM/dd/yyyy</var-value>
</var>
</field>
</form>
<!-- end AssignmentForm -->
</formset>
What did I miss or where should I look now.
Michael Oliver
Alarius Systems LLC
3325 N. Nellis Blvd, #1
Las Vegas, NV 89115
Phone:(702)643-7425
Fax:(520)844-1036
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