should not contain any special characters

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Can someone please help as how to proceed ?

I am performing a server side validation , and the Name should not contain any special characters like !#@$%^&*()-+ . except alphabets .

What should be the coding part i should set inside the setter methods of a DTO

public class User
{
String Name;

public void setName(String Name)
{
// do need code here
this.Name = Name;
}
}

Is it appropiate to put this logic inside a Setter Method ?

[Paul Sturrock]

I wouldn't (though I would change the Name property to comply with standard variable naming conventions). A DTO should be nothing more than a transport mechanism.

I'd use a validation framework or some sort of rules engine in the code that implements my business logic.

[Mohamed Inayath]

Hi,

1. You can do the validation in the client side.
2. You can do the validation(business) in the server side within servlet

[Paul Sturrock]

Mohamed Inayath wrote:Hi,

1. You can do the validation in the client side.

Of course all this can be is a guide, since there is no way to guarentee validation is run client side in a normal web application. If validation is important (and it usually is) then the server is the place to be doing it.

[Mohamed Inayath]

Strange..!

If I have to do a sanity check, like for example lenght check, null check or in this case character check.
I have to post a request from the client to server if its invalid then again post the request with a change.

Will it not be feasible to have basic sanity check on the client side and have a pure business check validation at the server side.

[karan wadhwani]

boolean matches= name.matches("!#@$%^]*");

dont use captical for variables, in your case use Name as name.

[Paul Sturrock]

Mohamed Inayath wrote:Strange..!

If I have to do a sanity check, like for example lenght check, null check or in this case character check.
I have to post a request from the client to server if its invalid then again post the request with a change.

Will it not be feasible to have basic sanity check on the client side and have a pure business check validation at the server side.

Yes it will be feasable and probably quite a helpful thing to do. My point is you cannot rely on client side validation alone, because you can't guarentee it is being run.

[karan wadhwani]

if ( name.matches("[a-zA-Z]") ) {
// OK
}

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Thanks a lot