[jira] Resolved: (WW-1400) validation.xml and action calls

["Don Brown (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-1400?page=all ]

Don Brown resolved WW-1400.
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    Resolution: Not A Problem

Um, I believe you meant to file this ticket against the Struts 1 project?  That XML looks like commons-validator, which isn't used in Struts 2. :)

> validation.xml and action calls
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WW-1400
>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-1400
>             Project: Struts 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>         Environment: linux,win2000,jboss
>            Reporter: Geoff Simpson
>
> The way the validation is currently working is not very well designed (unless i'm missing something). When the form validation fails the call is forwarded straight to the jsp. This means there is not chance to setup request / session objects for dynamic drop menu's in the jsp. There is a work around using validwhen but it's not very clean, it would be much better to call the execute method of the action script even when auto validation determines the page is not valid.
> The work around is to use vadidwhen so that fill call (action is null) the validation will pass and the variables can be stored in the session.
> <field property="country" depends="validwhen">
>             	<arg0 key="userRegistrationForm.country"/>
> 				<var>
> 				  <var-name>test</var-name>
> 				  <var-value>((action == null) or (*this* != null))</var-value>
> 				</var>
>             </field> 

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