problem with validation

[Eric Sexton]

I have the following action mapped in my struts config

  
<action path="/secure/searchEob" 
type="org.notreal.struts.actions.eob.SearchForm"
name="SearchForm" 
scope="session" 
validate="false" 
input="/do/secure/searchNoPrepopulate">
<forward name="success" path="@searchEobFormDisplay"/>
</action>

First off, with validate set to "false", why does this still get submitted to validation? When I try to set it to "true", it kills the app server altogether. Anyhow, my goal is to get validation and when I get an error, I want to forward to another action that is slightly different then my original action. Right now when the validation occurs, the 'input' parameter is ignored and the 'path' is the action that gets called. Any suggestions?

[Srikanth Shenoy]

Just a guess
Your input="/do/secure/searchNoPrepopulate" might be resulting in infinite loop resulting in app server crash.
Another weird thing is that the forward starts with @ rather than /.
Srikanth
Author: Struts Survival Guide

[Eric Sexton]

But shouldn't the 'validate=false' be stopping it from validating? Why does it still validate?

[Marc Peabody]

The action TYPE attribute should be the fully qualified class name of your ACTION, not your formbean.
Don't forget to map your formbean in a form-bean tag - that is where the TYPE attribute is the fully qualified class name of the formbean.

[Srikanth Shenoy]

Good catch Marc...
Srikanth

[Emilio Butrage�o]

Eric -
Do what the previous posters have suggested, and if that does not work, look at how you are invoking the action class.
I use WSAD and have not seen those problems. Good luck