Re: S2: Validation not happening

[maestro <ma...@gmail.com>]

For sake of completeness, I have decided to drop the Validation.xml route
and go with the plain old java validation. Time is running, and so am I. :)

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:06 PM, maestro <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have searched and compared to no avail.
> This one has been stumping me for some time now.
> I'm trying to use the validation.xml. I have it working on one page and not
> on the other.
>
> Perhaps you can spot the error?
>
> struts.xml
>
>     <package name="crm" extends="struts-default">
>
>         <action name="customer.update" method="update"
> class="ca.pan.crm.customer.UpdateAction">
>             <result name="add">/WEB-INF/customer/update.jsp</result>
>             <result name="cancel"
> type="redirectAction">customer.list</result>
>             <result name="input">/WEB-INF/customer/update.jsp</result>
>             <result name="success"
> type="redirectAction">customer.list</result>
>         </action>
>
>     </package>
>
>
> public class UpdateAction extends ActionSupport
>     implements ModelDriven<Customer>, Preparable, SessionAware {
>
>     public String update() throws Exception {
>
>         return SUCCESS;
>     }
>
>
>
> UpdateAction-customer.update-validation.xml
>
> <validators>
>   <field name="companyName">
>       <field-validator type="requiredstring">
>            <message >${getText("msg.companyName.required")}</message>
>       </field-validator>
>       <field-validator type="stringlength">
>          <param name="maxLength">255</param>
>          <param name="minLength">1</param>
>          <message>${getText("msg.companyName.invalid.length")}</message>
>      </field-validator>
>   </field>
> </validators>
>
>
> JSP
> <s:form action="customer.update.action" method="post" validate="true"
> name="frmPost">
> ...
>                 <tr>
>                     <td></td>
>                     <td class="manditoryStar">*</td>
>                     <td><s:text name="customer.field.company.name"/><s:text
> name="text.colon"/></td>
>                     <td><s:textfield name="companyName" size="60"
> maxlength="255"/></td>
>                     <td></td>
>                 </tr>
>
>
> The only difference between the one that works and this one that doesn't is
> the fields referenced in validation xml are defined in the Action class
> whereas the ones in the example that doesn't work are defined in the
> Customer class.
>
> So I tried the validation.xml as follows without any success either.
>   <field name="customer.companyName">
>
> Gimme anything you can think of!!!
>
>