Validator and collections in request

[Brian Rook <br...@hotmail.com>]

I've been banging my head against the validator framework and must ask a 
question.  If it has already been addressed, I apologize and would 
appreciate being directed to the appropriate thread.

Basically, I'm creating a select input and populating it's options from a 
collection that I store in the _request_ from an action class called 
PromptAddEditUserAction.

However, when I use the validator plugin to validate the input I get an 
error on the page when the validation fails and it's due to the collection 
not residing in the request anymore.

I believe that one of the suggested solutions was to place the collection 
into the session, but I feel that this is an unaccepable solution as it 
clutters up the session with unnecessary objects.

So, I've decided to create a new, intermediaty Action class called 
ValidateAddEditUserAction in which I pull the validator resources from the 
servlet context and perform the validation manually and thereby control the 
forwards based on the errors produced (so I can go back to 
PromptAddEditUserAction instead of being redirected to the .jsp page when 
errors are produced).  However, I'm having problems getting the error 
messages out of the ValidatorResults object and the documentation on the 
validator in pretty sparse.

Questions:
1)Am I going down the wrong path?
2)Has anyone dealt directly with the Validator classes before, specifically 
ValidatorResults in order to retrieve the messages?

p.s.  I have successfully created a validator from the resources that the 
plug-in created and ran the validate() method and produced 
ValidationResults, I just don't know how to get the error messages:

Code snippet: (From my ValidateUserInputAction)

ActionServlet as = getServlet();
		ServletContext sc = as.getServletContext();

		ModuleConfig mc = mapping.getModuleConfig();
		String prefix = mc.getPrefix();

		ValidatorResources vr =
			(ValidatorResources)sc.getAttribute(
				"org.apache.commons.validator.VALIDATOR_RESOURCES" + prefix);

		logger.debug("got resources" + vr);

		Validator validator = new Validator(vr,"userForm");
		validator.addResource(Validator.BEAN_KEY, thisForm);
		ValidatorResults results = new ValidatorResults();
		try{
			 results = validator.validate();
		}catch (ValidatorException ve){
			ve.printStackTrace();
		}
		logger.debug("results empty: " + results.empty());


Thanks for any assistance

brian







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