Not able to validate my JSP

[Priya Jotwani]

Hi,

I am trying to use Struts validator framework.I have a JSP Page where I have two dropdowns. Both the dropdowns have some default values. When the user clicks on Submit button , he should not be allowed to go to the next page if he has not selected anything from the two dropdowns.
I am doing something like this but am able to proceed without getting an error message on the JSP Page

  
See , I have done something like this :
 
 
 
In my validator.xml , I have 
 
<form name="ClientReportingForm"> 
 <field property="reportType" depends="required">
 <arg0 key="prompt.reportType"/>
 </field>
 <field property="productLine" depends="required">
 <arg0 key="prompt.productLine"/>
 </field>
 </form>
 
In my ApplicationResources.properties I have 
 
  <prompt.reportType     value= "Report Type"/>
  <prompt.productLine    value= "Product Line"/>
 
And in my JSP Page I have 
 
      <logic:messagesPresent message="error" > 
      <bean:message key="errors.header" /> 
      <ul> 
      <font color="red"><b> <html:messages id="error"> 
      <li><bean:write name="error" filter="false" /></li> 
      </html:messages> </b> </font> 
      </ul> 
      <bean:message key="errors.footer" /> 
      </logic:messagesPresent> 
 

But I am able to proceed even though I don�t select anything from the listbox(note that there is a default value called �Select field� in both the dropdowns)
 

TIA,
Priya

[vicky kumar]

Make sure you are using Struts 1.1.
1.0 doesn't have validator support.

Vicky

[Marc Peabody]

1) Your ActionForm should extend ValidatorForm. If you overwrite the validate method, you will need to make sure that it makes a call to the super.validate method.

2) ApplicationResources is not an xml file. It should look like this:
prompt.reportType =Report Type
prompt.productLine =Product Line

3) You are making the display of messages harder than it should be. All you should need in the jsp is <html:errors/>. If you want the extra formatting, it will handle it for you if you have entries for:
errors.header
errors.footer
errors.prefix AND
errors.suffix

[Priya Jotwani]

Thanks Marc for your reply. It seems to be working now . The problem was that I hadn't specified the input attribute in my Struts-config.xml.

But now I have one more problem . I have 4 JSP Pages and one ActionForm class for all these pages. Now I need to validate the input fields of all the 4 JSPs(i.e all the fields are required). Now , if in my Validator.xml, I specify all the fields , it fires all the validations on the very first page(ie. it cribs abt the fields on page 2,3 and 4 as Required). How can i handle such situation ?

TIA,
Priya

[Marc Peabody]

Have a hidden value for each page.

Then use the validation to check that the page is a certain value to determine if a field is required. You will use requiredif validation for 1.1 or validwhen if you use 1.2.

http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/dev_validator.html