javascript error using validator

[David Strelitz]

I'm using struts 1.1, and am having a problem with the validator where I'm combining two forms onto one page using jsp:includes. Each jsp/form has its own <html:javascript> tag which creates a small block of javascript code to handle required fields.

The problem is that struts creates the javascript function "required()" twice, once for each <html:javascript> block. The required() function contains the list of form fields that are required for entry.

It wouldn't be a problem if it named each function according to the form it is associated with, e.g.:

function StateFormrequired () {
this.aa = new Array("certstate", "State is required.", new Function ("varName", " return this[varName];"));
}

So what happens is that when anything validates, it uses the first required() function, and produces a javascript error if it doesn't match the form you're on.

Do you know of a way to get around this? I did see a post out there that showed the following, so it makes me think there's a version of struts that addresses it:

var formName = form.getAttributeNode( "name ");
oRequired = e v a l( 'new ' + formName.value + '_required() ');


Thanks!

[Shankar Narayana]

I think atleast for the pages which contain other included jsp pages, you should maintain different function names.

[David Strelitz]

The problem is that I don't have control over the function names.
The required() function is generated automatically by struts as part of the dynamicJavascript option on <html:javascript>

[Shankar Narayana]

I don't find any other alternatives unless you have the control over the names

[David Strelitz]

OK I found the answer.

This was a bug (or deficiency) in Struts 1.1.
It has been corrected in the recent 1.1 nightly builds and is incorporated into 1.2

for more info:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22462