[jira] Updated: (STR-3049) Specifying Dispatcher based validations in validation.xml

["J Alex (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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J Alex updated STR-3049:
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    Priority: Minor  (was: Major)

> Specifying Dispatcher based validations in validation.xml
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>                 Key: STR-3049
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/STR-3049
>             Project: Struts 1
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>         Environment: N/A
>            Reporter: J Alex
>            Assignee: J Alex
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I want to confirm if there's a way to specify a mapping between the dispatch methods and the validations declaratively.
> The method should be independent of javascript.
> Scenario : 
> Consider a single-page form (i.e  single  HTML <form> mapping to say /myAction.do ) with many sections, each section having its own Submit button. On submit of each, ONLY the fields within that section must be validated.
> Using DispatchAction to handle each submit button takes care of centralizing the handler methods and making the Action classes crisp. But, when it comes to validation, there's no way to specify in validation.xml the fields tied to a specific dispatch method.
> We could use the "page" parameter to delimit the validations, but this cannot be done declaratively since we cannot dynamically change the "page" using javascript on a particular submit. The workaround is to set validate=false, and explicitly invoke validation from the Action class after setting the "page" within each dispatcher method.
> i.e 
> myForm.setPage(1);
> I think it will be a good enhancement to provide this mapping within Struts itself which i feel will greatly enhance the utility of DispatchAction.
> ActionMessages errors = myForm.validate( mapping, request );

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