The short answer is that there isn't a way to echo back user input in the error message. Most of the time I don't think its necessary to do so anyway - since if you're re-displaying/highlighting errors then what is the need. The one time I scenario I wanted to do something like that, was when I had a list, say for example you are displaying a list of orders and you want a message along the lines "Order date for order number 1234 is invalid" - where the order number "1234" is a value from the list.
There are two places that I know of, where this kind of functionality has been provided. The first is in the "extends validator" I wrote (see the "indexed example"): http://www.niallp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/strutsvalidatorextends.html ...and the other place was in the javascript validator extension I started work on: http://www.niallp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/validatorjs.html Hopefully, one day I will find some time to work on validator to make these kind of features standard - but for now theres nothing "out of the box" to meet this requirement. Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Jouravlev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 6:01 PM I would like to know the answer on this too. I searched the Net, all examples use properties from property file. Using resource="false" does not help with either (neither?) of these variants: <arg0 key="nestedUser.fromAddress" resource="false"/> <arg0 key="${nestedUser.fromAddress}" resource="false"/> <arg0 key="registrationForm.nestedUser.fromAddress" resource="false"/> <arg0 key="${registrationForm.nestedUser.fromAddress}" resource="false"/> where registrationForm is action form definition in struts-config.xml, nestedUser is a nested BO. Originating mail address is rendered in HTML and submitted back to application as "nestedUser.fromAddress". Commons Validator does not process HttpServletRequest (that is expected). I glanced at ValidatorForm from Struts Validator integration, and saw this validate() method: public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request) { ServletContext application = getServlet().getServletContext(); ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors(); String validationKey = getValidationKey(mapping, request); Validator validator = Resources.initValidator(validationKey, this, application, request, errors, page); try { validatorResults = validator.validate(); } catch (ValidatorException e) { log.error(e.getMessage(), e); } return errors; } So, maybe you want to debug this one. Commons Validator basically does not have documentation, only Javadocs, which is not very descriptive. No comments in the source, either. This is frustrating. Michael. On 11/4/05, Troy Bull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using the struts validator and it works almost exactly the way I want. > > > Say I have a field tf and the value is "ABC" > > I want to do a validation requiring it to be an integer and return the > following error message: "tf must be an integer". > > I can do all this pretty easily here is the code that does it: > > in ApplicationResources.properties : > > validation.error.acty.integer={0} must be an integer and "{1}" is not. > > in validations.xml > > <field property="acty" depends="integer"> > <msg name="integer" key="validation.error.acty.integer"/> > <arg0 key="ACTY" resource="false"/> > <arg1 key="${??????}" resource="false"/> > </field> > > > my question is what do I put in ?????? to get hte actual value the user > entered to be echoed back out > > so if I type in AAA into the acty field I want the error message to be: > > ACTY must be an integer and "AAA" is not. > > Thanks Troy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
