S2: Help required on Validation File Management.

[Smita Kadle <sm...@tavant.com>]

Hi Folks,

I am using Struts 2.0.6 to create a web application on the
Spring/Hibernate stack. Validations in my application are done with
xwork 2.0.1 validators and I have a query in this regard which I hope
one of you can help me out with.

Domain objects in my application are created in 3 ways:- 
1) Wizard like Web UI
2) Excel file upload
3) Data sync from an external system.
In options 2 and 3, the complete information required to create a
complete domain object is available in one shot, however, for option 1
the domain object is completed by capturing data from the user through
multiple screens. For example let us say the first page saves the object
to a draft state and the second page completes (submits) the object. So
I would be saving a partial object in the first page and complete object
in the second. I intend to use context based validation to valid my
domain object before saving and have 2 non-intersecting sets of
validation for the same:- 
- Object-draft-validation.xml and 
- Object-submit-validation.xml 

Now when I want to invoke the complete set of validations at once for
option 2 & 3, I am forced to write a separate validation file
Object-validation.xml which is a union of the validations in the
previously mentioned 2 files. Instead of repeating the validations in
this file, I want to know whether there is a way to "include" the
previous 2 validation sets into this validation set. I was thinking of
using XInclude feature of XML to achieve this but it didn't quite go
well as the <validators> do not support namespace. 

Has anyone here faced a similar issue or have any ideas how to go about
solving this? 


Thanks & Regards,
Smita
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