Broken Client-Side Validation

[Evan Schnell <es...@nvisia.com>]

I am having a great deal of trouble with client side validation on 
fields that use the requiredIf rule in Struts 1.1B3 and RC1.  ServerSide 
validation of everything works fine and client side validation works 
fine when I remove the requiredIf clause.

I have the following entry in my validation.xml file:

     <field property="lastName" depends="minlength, requiredif">
     	<arg0 key="register.lastname"/>
     	<arg1 name="minlength" key="${var:minlength}" resource="false"/>
     	<var>
     		<var-name>field[0]</var-name>
     		<var-value>firstName</var-value>
     	</var>
     	<var>
     		<var-name>field-test[0]</var-name>
     		<var-value>NOTNULL</var-value>
     	</var>
     	<var>
     		<var-name>minlength</var-name>
     		<var-value>2</var-value>
     	</var>
     </field>

This works perfectly on the server side but the entire validation chain 
falls apart on the client side with the following Mozilla Javascript 
debugger error.  (The same behavior happens in IE)

Recorded local startup 2, global 218254.
Exception ``SyntaxError: invalid assignment left-hand side'' thrown from 
function minlength() in <http://localhost:8080/validation/register.do> 
line 30.
[e] message = [string] "invalid assignment left-hand side"
Stopped for thrown exception.
#0: function minlength() in 
<http://localhost:8080/validation/register.do> line 30
028: this.ac = new Array("passwordConfirm", "Retype Password can not be 
less than 4 characters.", new Function ("varName", "this.maxlength='8'; 
this.minlength='4'; return this[varName];"));
029: this.ad = new Array("firstName", "First Name can not be less than 2 
characters.", new Function ("varName", "this.minlength='2'; return 
this[varName];"));
030: this.ae = new Array("lastName", "Last Name can not be less than 2 
characters.", new Function ("varName", "this.field[0]='firstName'; 
this.minlength='2'; this.field-test[0]='NOTNULL'; return this[varName];"));
031: }
032:

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Evan Schnell, Technical Lead
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