Errata

[Marco Tedone <mt...@jemos.org>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marco Tedone" <mt...@jemos.org>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <st...@jakarta.apache.org>; "Thomas
Miskiewicz" <th...@web.de>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: Struts doesn't execute my ActionForm.


> Tom, the type attribute in the action element should point to an Action,
not
> to a class which extends the ActionForm class, therefore the source you
> enclosed in your mail seems to be correct, but shouldn't be indicated in
the
> input attribute. When you indicate the attribute 'validate' = true, the
> validate() method of your ActionForm will be executed.
>
> Your element could be written something like the following:
>
> <action path="/postTest"
>         input="/jsp/postTest.jsp"
>         name="postTestForm"
>         scope="request"
>         validate="true"
>         type="com.mycompany.PostTestAction">
>   <forward name="posttest.success" path="/execute/homePageSetup"/>
> </action>
>
> provided that postTestForm has been declared as
> "com.mycompany.PostTestAction" in the <form-beans> element.

    Sorry, here I had to say: provided that postTestForm has been declared
as "com.mycompany.PostTestForm" in the <form-beans> element.

>If you declared
> it as a DynaValidatorForm or a DynaValidatorActionForm, then your
validation
> should pass through the validation.xml file.
>
> The input attribute tells the framework only where to redirect the control
> if an exception is thrown in the executed Action.
>
> Marco
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas Miskiewicz" <th...@web.de>
> To: "Marco Tedone" <mt...@jemos.org>; "Struts Users Mailing List"
> <st...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 5:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Struts doesn't execute my ActionForm.
>
>
> > Marco,
> >
> > > >       <action path="/postTest"
> > > >              input="/WEB-INF/jsp/postTest.jsp"
> > > >             name="postTestForm"
> > > >             scope="request"
> > > >             validate="true"
> > > >             type="com.mycompany.PostTestForm">
> > > >             <forward name="posttest.success"
> > > path="/execute/homePageSetup"/>
> > > >       </action>
> >
> > > the input elemement should not contain the /WEB-INF specification (but
I
> > > could be wrong).
> >
> > I tried it already. You mean input="/postTest", right? I doesn't work
too.
> > I'm being send to the application entrypage anyway. Can you explain what
> > the %20name= thing in the URL is? I have no idea where does it come
> > from...
> >
> > >It seems to me also that as type you specified a class
> > > representing your Form more than the action to execute.
> >
> > The class specified as type is the ActionForm for the HTML form.
> > Here how it looks like:
> >
> > package com.mycompany;
> >
> > import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
> > import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
> > import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
> > import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
> > import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors;
> > import org.apache.struts.action.ActionError;
> > import org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet;
> > import org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources;
> >
> > import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
> > import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
> > import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
> >
> > import java.lang.String;
> >
> > public class PostTestForm extends ActionForm
> > {
> >    private String field1 = "";
> >    private String field2 = "";
> >    private String field3 = "";
> >
> >    private void checkForEmpty(String fieldName, String fieldKey, String
> > value,
> >                               ActionErrors errors)
> >    {
> >     if (value.trim().length() == 0)
> >     {
> >   System.out.println("***checkForEmpty***");
> >      ActionError error = new ActionError("error.posttest.field.null",
> > fieldName);
> >      errors.add(fieldKey, error);
> >     }
> >    }
> >
> >    private void checkForLength(String fieldName, String fieldKey, String
> > value,
> >                                int maxLength, ActionErrors errors)
> >    {
> >     if (value.length() > maxLength)
> >     {
> >      ActionError error =  new ActionError("error.posttest.field.length",
> > fieldName);
> >      errors.add(fieldKey, error);
> >     }
> >    }
> >
> >
> >    public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping,
> >      HttpServletRequest request)
> >    {
> >     ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
> >
> >     checkForEmpty("field1", "error.field1.empty", getField1(), errors);
> >     checkForEmpty("field2", "error.field2.empty", getField2(), errors);
> >     checkForEmpty("field3", "error.field3.empty", getField3(), errors);
> >     System.out.println("***checkForEmpty zu Ende***");
> >
> >     checkForLength("field1", "error.field1.lenght", getField1(), 5,
> errors);
> >     checkForLength("field2", "error.field2.lenght", getField2(), 5,
> errors);
> >     checkForLength("field3", "error.field3.lenght", getField3(), 5,
> errors);
> >
> >     return errors;
> >    }
> >
> >    public void reset(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request)
> >    {
> >     field1 = "";
> >     field2 = "";
> >     field3 = "";
> >    }
> >
> >    public String getField1()
> >    {
> >     return field1;
> >    }
> >
> >    public void setField1(String feld1)
> >    {
> >     this.field1 = field1;
> >    }
> >
> >    public String getField2()
> >    {
> >     return field2;
> >    }
> >
> >    public void setField2(String field2)
> >    {
> >     this.field2 = field2;
> >    }
> >
> >    public String getField3()
> >    {
> >     return field3;
> >    }
> >
> >    public void setField3(String field3)
> >    {
> >     this.field3 = field3;
> >    }
> >
> > }
> >
> > I'm sitting on it since couple of hours already, but I'm no step
further.
> > I using the Professional Struts Applicatons book. I wonder if there
> > are some many error in there or what else is going on?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Tom
> >
> >
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