Struts validation does not work

[Jerry Wang]

I have defined my form

<form-bean name="registrationForm"
type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorActionForm">
..
</form-bean>

And my action definition is

<action path="/register"
type="RegisterAction"
name="registrationForm"
validate="true"
scope="request">
</action>

I already configured the validator plugin in struts-config.xml

<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 validation.xml

<form name="/register">
<field property="firstName"
depends="required">
<arg0 key="FirstName" resource="false"/>
</field>
</form>

It seems not working. Because I submit my form with the firstName blank I did not get the error messages as expected. I did put the

<html:errors/>

in my jsp page.

Please help and thanks in advance!

[Nimchi Yung]

Change your validation.xml to

 
<form name="registrationForm">
<field property="firstName"
depends="required">
<arg0 key="FirstName" resource="false"/>
</field>
</form>
 

--Nimchi

[Jerry Wang]

Originally posted by Nimchi Yung:
Change your validation.xml to

 
<form name="registrationForm">
<field property="firstName"
depends="required">
<arg0 key="FirstName" resource="false"/>
</field>
</form>
 

--Nimchi

Thanks Nimchi,

I tried that in the first place and did not work. What other possible ways could make it not work?

Jerry

[Marc Peabody]

Nimchi is correct, though.

Another thing to check is that you are defining firstName in the formbean of struts-config.