Very Urgent : Fututre Date validation using struts validation

[Vidya Mohandas]

I am unable to validate a date field, to not have a future date (the date shud not accept even tomorrows date i.e., it shud not be greater than today's date).
I am using struts validator. Can I do the above mentioned validation using struts validator or I need to have a separate java class for doing the validation (fyi...i shud not use the form bean for any sort of validation)?

Please help me.

[Merrill Higginson]

If you want to use the validation framework for this, you're going to have to create your own validation rule. Here is a link that shows an example of how to do this:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/12/11/jakartastruts.html?page=1

If you don't want to go to the trouble of creating a custom validation rule, an easier alternative would be to override the validate() method in your ActionForm and have it do the validation instead of the validation framework.

[Srilakshmi Vara]

Hi,

I think the best way is to override validate method in ActionForm because you can customize it according to your functionality.

Regards,
Srilakshmi

[Marco Vanoli]

It is possible to use validator framework and at the same time override validate() method for that thing not supported from the framework?

[Cendy Nguvy]

Hi,

Yes, it's possible.
Code this following in your ActionForm :

public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping,HttpServletRequest request)
{
ActionErrors errors = super.validate(mapping,request);
if ( ... )
{
ActionMessage message = new ActionMessage("yourmessagekey","yourproperty") ;
errors.add("yourproperty",message) ;
}
return errors ;
}

[ July 23, 2005: Message edited by: Cendy Nguvy ]

[Ganesh Venkat]

Do as Merrill Higginson suggested, in that way you will all the validation rules under the Validator framework,