Validation problem

[Rafael Taboada <ka...@gmail.com>]

Hi folks, I'm doing my validation for my form fields...
 I use validation framework, so I don't use validate method in my form bean.
 The problem I have is the validate is called when I use for first time the 
module. I mean, when I see for frst ime the HTML form, validation is 
called... Why???
 When I set validate attribute to false in my action mapping, validation is 
not called...
 I want the validation is called only when the user click on submit button.
 Did u have the same problem???
 My Action extend DispatchAction class.
 Thanks in advance.

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Re: Validation problem

[Michael Jouravlev <jm...@gmail.com>]

Rafael, turn validation off and call form.validate() manually from
your event handler method.

Michael.

On 7/11/05, Rafael Taboada <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks, I'm doing my validation for my form fields...
>  I use validation framework, so I don't use validate method in my form bean.
>  The problem I have is the validate is called when I use for first time the
> module. I mean, when I see for frst ime the HTML form, validation is
> called... Why???
>  When I set validate attribute to false in my action mapping, validation is
> not called...
>  I want the validation is called only when the user click on submit button.
>  Did u have the same problem???
>  My Action extend DispatchAction class.
>  Thanks in advance.

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Re: Validation problem

[Borislav Sabev <b....@eventsoft.de>]

Rafael Taboada wrote:

>Hi folks, I'm doing my validation for my form fields...
> I use validation framework, so I don't use validate method in my form bean.
> The problem I have is the validate is called when I use for first time the 
>module. I mean, when I see for frst ime the HTML form, validation is 
>called... Why???
> When I set validate attribute to false in my action mapping, validation is 
>not called...
> I want the validation is called only when the user click on submit button.
> Did u have the same problem???
> My Action extend DispatchAction class.
> Thanks in advance.
>
>  
>
Use 2 actions - one that shows the form and one that submit it, and 
validate the form ONLY on the second action (set the "validate" 
attribute in struts-config.xml to false or true respectively) This is a 
very common pattern in Struts.
If you use a DispatchAction (or derived from) to show and submit the 
form, than you have 2 choices:
1. the suggested upper (add just a smal forward action when you want to 
show the form)
2. recognize which "method" of the action (view or submit) is called - 
you can find it in the reuest, passed to validate() - and then make the 
validation only in case of submit.

Regards
Borislav