Validator and xdoclet anyone?

[Brian McSweeney <br...@aurium.net>]

Hi all,

I'm using xdoclet to build my struts app.

I'm trying to get the validator package to work with it. 
I've written the simple ValidationForm below:


package com.mycom.web.struts.form;

import org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorForm;
/**
 * @struts.form  name="validateForm"
 */
public class ValidateForm extends ValidatorForm
{
    private String _creditCard;
    /**
     * Sets the creditCard attribute of the SearchForm object
     *
     * @struts.validator type="required"
     * @struts.validator type="creditCard"
     */
    public void setCreditCard (String creditCard)
    {
        _creditCard = creditCard;
    }
    public String getCreditCard ()
    {
        return _creditCard;
    }
}


And a simple action too.


package com.mycom.web.struts.action;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;


import com.mycom.web.struts.form.ValidateForm;


/**
 * @struts.action
 *      name="validateForm"
 *      path="/validate"
 *      scope="request"
 *      validate="true"
 *
 * @struts.action-forward
 *      name="success"
 *      path="/validated.jsp"
 */
public class ValidateAction extends BaseAction
{
    /**
     * @see xpetstore.web.struts.action.BaseAction#doExecute(ActionMapping, ActionForm, HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse)
     */
    protected ActionForward doExecute (
    ActionMapping mapping,
    ActionForm form,
    HttpServletRequest request,
    HttpServletResponse response)
    throws Exception
    {
        System.out.println("Starting validate action");
        ValidateForm  frm  = ( ValidateForm ) form;
        
        System.out.println("Validate form is: "+frm);
        System.out.println("forwarding");
        return mapping.findForward ( SUCCESS );
    }
}

I'm using the following webdoclet target in my build file:


 <target name="xdoclet" depends="init">
        <webdoclet 
         destdir="${gen.dir}/WEB-INF" 
         mergedir="${merge.dir}"
        >
         <fileset dir="${web.dir}" includes="**/*.java" />
                
         <deploymentdescriptor 
          servletspec="${servlet.spec.version}"
         >
          <taglib
                    uri="struts-bean"
                    location="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld"
                />
          <taglib
                    uri="struts-html"
                    location="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld"
                />
          <taglib
                    uri="struts-logic"
                    location="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld"
                />
          <taglib
                    uri="struts-nested"
                    location="/WEB-INF/struts-nested.tld"
                />
            </deploymentdescriptor>
            
            <strutsconfigxml validatexml="true" version="1.1"/>
            <strutsvalidationxml />
        </webdoclet>
 </target> 



It builds my validation.xml file as follows:

<form-validation>
  <!--
    Define global validation config in validation-global.xml
  -->
  <formset>
      <form name="validateForm">
              <field property="creditCard"
                     depends="required,creditCard">

                  <arg0 key="validateForm.creditCard"/>
              </field>
      </form>
  </formset>
</form-validation>

but when I deploy, I get an error:

Cannot retrieve definition for form bean validateForm

All other forms and actions in my project work fine, but none 
of them user the validation package. The first difference I see 
is that no definition for my ValidateForm has been created in 
my struts-config.xml file, whereas for all the other forms, they 
have been generated.

Any tips?

I know this is a struts list and so if no-one is using xdoclet then 
I'll ask on the xdoclet list instead.
thanks very much,
Brian