Re: Action mappings, validation and tiles

[Cedric Dumoulin <ce...@apache.org>]

  Hello,

  See intermixed.

       Cedric

Max Johnson wrote:

>Hi,
>
>My project uses ActionMappings for everything. I want all page access to be
>routed via the controller so my JSPs are hidden below /WEB-INF.
>
>I'm using both the tiles and validator packages so a typical action mapping
>looks something like this:
>
>	<action
>		path="/admin/UserRegistration"
>		type="com.dealspark.memorypack.webapp.UserRegistrationAction"
>	      name="userRegistration"
>		scope="request"
>		input=".mp.userRegistration"
>		validate="true"/>
>
>This works fine. My problem is that I initially need to present a blank form
>(which fails the validation criteria set out in validation.xml). I believe
>the recommended approach when all activity is routed via the controlled
>requires that a second action mapping be defined. Something like:
>
>	<action
>		path="/admin/UserRegistrationCreate"
>		type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"
>		parameter=".mp.userRegistration"
>	      name="userRegistration"
>		scope="request"
>		validate="false"/>
>
>My problem is that org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction does not like
>tiles definitions as parameters. A request to /admin/UserRegistrationCreate
>throws an exception:
>
>javax.servlet.ServletException: Path .mp.userRegistration does not start
>with a "/" character
>
  Do you have setup the TilesRequestProcessor and the TilesPlugin 
correctly ? You need the TilesPlugin, which in turn setup the 
TilesRequestProcessor, in order to catch tiles definitions.

>
>It may be that I'm missing the point entirely here but can anyone tell me
>how, when using tiles, I can temporarily disable validation to display the
>preliminary entry form.
>
  I think you should be able to call the validation from within your 
action. So, you can do some logic detecting if you need some validation 
or not.

>
>Regards
>
>Max Johnson
>
>
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