Hi All, This is somewhat related to Matt's post on conditional validation at http://www.nabble.com/Re:-Conditional-validation-p11990883.html ; i dont have the original email on struts-user (joined the group only last week!) to reply to :
I need some help regarding the extent to which we can apply visitor field validation. Say, my domain object (Address - with attributes addrline1, addrline2, ZIP etc.) is buried deep in a hierarchy - ie app.user1.address ; and we define only "app" in the Action. Can we declare a visitor validation on "app" and define the rules on Address-validation.xml ? . My requirement is that we could use address in different objects ; like app.user1.address ; app.user2.address - and the error message needs to be customized depending on user1, user2 etc . It'll be elegant if the validation rules are defined just once for Address. Right now, the only way i know to achieve is to define ALL fields in the <action>- validation.xml and hardcode the message for each situation ; which i think is an overkill. Please let me know if you've any suggestions/ideas. Thanks, Joseph
