Validation not showing up

[Frederick Smythe]

I have a tile which contains a form upon which I want to perform some simple validation. Originally I had a problem whereby it would correctly display the validation errors, but the rest of the page would not be displayed correctly because no parameters were being passed along. To solve this I call this method within my ValidatorActionForm:

public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request)
{
//Get standard validation errors
ActionErrors errors = super.validate(mapping, request);
if (errors == null) return null;
return errors;
}

This is called by the following code in my BaseAction's execute method so that if there are errors it is redirected to the correct page:

ActionErrors errors = emailForm.validate(mapping, request);
// if there are validation errors
if (errors != null && !(errors.isEmpty()))
{

// set path to URL of original page
String propertyDetailParams = emailForm.getPropertyDetailsParams();
// new ActionForward for reloading original page
RedirectingActionForward backForward = new RedirectingActionForward(mapping.findForward("invalid"));
backForward.addParam("propertyId", propertyDetailParams);
request.setAttribute(Globals.ERROR_KEY, errors);
return backForward;
}

This redirects properly back to the correct page but no validation errors are shown; it's as though the send button was never pushed. However I have the correct <html:errors/> within the jsp tile and I know the validation works correctly on other pages.


Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? If you need any more info I'll happily provide it.

Cheers.

[Bear Bibeault]

Looks like this is a Struts question. Moving this to the Struts forum on your behalf.

[Frederick Smythe]

My apologies, thanks.