I guess that the big question is:
"What about CamperForm?, what does  it look like?"
If it is a Java class that you created, what does the validate()
method look like?  If it is a DynaValidatiorForm (make sure that
it is not a DynaActionForm), what does the XML look like?

- Nick

On 2/7/06, Tom Ansley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to validate server side.  I have an action which forwards to
> another action.  If the original action has validate="true" then the
> forward
> doesn't happen and the validation tries to validate a null form.  If
> validate="false" in the original action then everything works but no
> validation occurs.
>
> Does validator somehow alter the work flow in struts?  My action doesn't
> get
> completely skipped because it does attempt to load a jsp page, but I have
> no
> idea how it gets this jsp page and why it doesn't call the action.
>
> This seems very strange.  The link appears on the html page like this:
>
> <a href="/camp/jsp/family/searchFamily.do?action=addCamper">Tom</a>
>
> So, the original action is "searchFamily" and the forward is "addCamper".
> The forward happens inside the searchFamily action because I look for the
> "action" parameter and forward according to that value.  This forward code
> is this:
>
> return (mapping.findForward(action));
>
> Is this findForward not how I should be doing this?
>
> The struts-config excerpt for addCamper in the family module is:
>
> <forward   name="addCamper" contextRelative="true"
> path="/jsp/camper/addCamper.do" redirect="true"/>
>
> and the excerpt in the camper module is:
>
> <action path="/addCamper"
>       type="com.camp.actions.camper.addCamperAction"
>       name="CamperForm"
>       scope="session"
>       validate="true"
>       parameter="submit"
>       input="/addCamper.jsp">
>       <forward name="add"         path="/addCamper.jsp"/>
>       <forward name="menu"     contextRelative="true"
> path="/jsp/menu/Menu.do" redirect="true"/>
>       <forward name="add_registration"     contextRelative="true"
> path="/jsp/registration/addRegistration.do" redirect="true"/>
> </action>
>
>

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