Whew, ok, so after 7 hours of debugging, we figured it out.
If you want to use validation and you need to use a custom form bean
(that extends the validator form) that can pre-populate some form
elements while leaving others alone you need to specify the
'validate="false"' attribute on the action element in the struts config
file that pre-populates the form bean used by the JSP. Otherwise, the
validator will try to validate the form bean before the JSP is even
rendered and when the JSP is rendered, you'll get all the validation errors.
Hope this can help someone else...
-Adam
Adam Gordon wrote:
I've been racking my brains for several hours now and can't seem to
find the exact way to configure struts for validation when using tiles
and a form bean. My problem is when the URI hits Index.do, so for the
first action mapping.
Here are the snippets from my config files:
validation:
<formset>
<form name="inviteFormBean">
...
...
<formset>
struts:
<form-beans>
<form-bean name="inviteFormBean"
type="the.path.to.MyFormBean"/>
</form-beans>
<action-mappings>
<action path="/Index"
type="the.path.to.MyAction"
name="inviteFormBean"
input="inviteFormTile"/>
<action path="/InviteSubmit"
name="inviteFormBean"
input="inviteFormTile"
type="the.path.to.AnotherAction"
parameter="method">
<forward name="display" path="inviteSentTile" />
</action>
...
<action-mappings>
tiles:
<definition name="inviteFormTile">
...
</definition>
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First, I'm only using server-side validation because we don't want the
J/S alert window.
The bean "FormBean" extends ValidatorForm though I've also tried
ValidatorActionForm. I've also played with the "parameter" attribute
on the "action" element for the Index action mapping. The behavior
I'm seeing is that either MyAction's execute(...) method doesn't even
get executed and the validator validates the form in the JSP as it's
rendered (not at submission time), OR, MyAction's execute(...) method
is called but then the form isn't validated on submission.
If more info is needed, please let me know. Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Adam
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