"null is requred" validation message

[Mark Beavis]

Hi everyone -

I'm a beginner in Struts and am just trying to introduce validation onto my form for the first time. The good news is that the form is validating, however a sensible error message is not being returned.

My form bean property:

<form-property name="type" type="java.lang.String"/>

My validation rule:

<field property="type" depends="required">
     <arg key="error.type"/>
</field>  

I'm using the struts blank project that comes with the struts 1.3.5 download and I haven't changed anything apart from the above.

Can anyone help out - Thanks

[Merrill Higginson]

You must add a message key to your MessageResources.properties file that matches the key you specified. Example:

error.type=Type

Once you change this, redeploy, and restart the server, the message should read "Type is required".

[Mark Beavis]

Thanks a lot Merrill!