Email validation does not work

[Sudha Joish]

I use Struts 1.1 with Tomcat 5.0 as my webserver.
My JSP has 3 text boxes. All three can't be left empty and one of them is accepts an email address. I want this text box to be validated for "email" and "required".
Validation works for 'required', but doesnt work for 'email'. I am probably missing something here. Nothing happens abt the email check, it merely goes onto the next Action class - if the text box is not empty.
Please have a look at my code:
Validation.xml:

<form-validation>
    <formset>
        <form name="contactForm">
            <field property="name"
                   depends="required">
                   <arg0 key="name.displayname"/>
            </field>
            <field property="user_email"
                   depends="required,email">
                    <arg0 key="user_email.displayname"/>
            </field>
            
            <field property="message_text"
                   depends="required">
                <arg0 key="message_text.displayname"/>
            </field>
        </form>
    </formset>
</form-validation>

In struts_config.xml:

<action path="/insertContact"
   type="net.pilot.InsertContactAction"
   name="contactForm"
   scope="request"
   validate="true"
   input="/ContactPage.jsp">
.
.
.
<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
<set-property 
              property="pathnames" 
              value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,
                     /WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>
</plug-in>

And in ApplicationResources.properties:

name.displayname=Name
user_email.displayname=User Email
message_text.displayname=Message
errors.required={0} is required
errors.email={0} is an invalid e-mail address

I checked validator_rules.xml. It does contain scripts to validate email.
What am I missing here? Please help.
Thanks
-- $uDhA

[sandy gupta]

All that you have posted up here is correct way to do it and it should be working, not sure why it is not. One thing comes to mind though. I am sure i am just being paranoid but still can you check if:
<validator name="email"
classname="org.apache.struts.validator.FieldChecks"
method="validateEmail"
methodParams="java.lang.Object,
org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction,
org.apache.commons.validator.Field,
org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors,
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest"
depends=""
msg="errors.email">
is there in your validator-rules.xml
Sandy

[David Yutzy]

I have the same issue and yes, that is in the rule.xml.

[Jeremy Cavagnolo]

I had the same problem with the email validation not working, and I found the following in tomcat's logs:

....

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.commons.validator.Validator.validateFieldForRule(Validator.java:454)
at org.apache.commons.validator.Validator.validateField(Validator.java:544)

...

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/oro/text/perl/Perl5Util
at org.apache.commons.validator.GenericValidator.isEmail(GenericValidator.java:420)
at org.apache.struts.validator.FieldChecks.validateEmail(FieldChecks.java:779)
... 41 more


I put the oro.jar in my webapp's lib directory, restarted, and email validation worked.