Struts 2 - Client Side Validation - Date validation - Dynamic min max date

Friends,

In my application, we do retrieving a date from a JSP page.

code sniper for JSP:

InitialSwitchAction--Validation.xml

The effective Date field should be within 1 year before today and 1 year after today.

How do I define that dynamic value on "min" and "max" ?

Please help me. I want to check the possibility before I override validate() method to do that validation?!

and you need to create getter and setter for minDate and maxDate in your corresponding action class, and assign the values using system date.

Thanks Nir Sharma, It is a nice idea.

I have implemented this with slightly different idea. Created a custom Date Validator and fixed this with on validation side itself.

package com.sanssan.xwork2.validator;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

import com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.ValidationException;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.validators.FieldValidatorSupport;
 
public class DateRangeValidator extends FieldValidatorSupport{

@Override
	public void validate(Object object) throws ValidationException{

String fieldName = getFieldName();
        Object val = getFieldValue(fieldName, object);
        
		Date enteredDate = null;
		if (val instanceof Date) {
			enteredDate = (Date) val;
		} else {
			return;
		}
		Calendar enteredDateCal = Calendar.getInstance();
		enteredDateCal.setTime(enteredDate);

Calendar validationDate = Calendar.getInstance();
		if (getDate() != null) {
			validationDate.setTime(getDate());
		}
		validationDate.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY , 0);
		validationDate.set(Calendar.MINUTE , 0);
		validationDate.set(Calendar.SECOND , 0);
		
		Calendar minimumDate = getMinimumDate(validationDate);
		Calendar maximumDate = getMaximumDate(validationDate);
		
		if (minimumDate.after(enteredDateCal) || maximumDate.before(enteredDateCal)) {
			addFieldError(fieldName, object);
            return;
		}
	}

private Calendar getMinimumDate(Calendar validationDate) {
		Calendar minimumDate = cloneCalendar(validationDate);
		minimumDate.add(Calendar.YEAR, (getMinYear() * -1));
		minimumDate.add(Calendar.MONTH, (getMinMonth() * -1));
		minimumDate.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, (getMinDate() * -1));
		return minimumDate;
	}

private Calendar getMaximumDate(Calendar validationDate) {
		Calendar maximumDate = cloneCalendar(validationDate);
		maximumDate.add(Calendar.YEAR, getMinYear());
		maximumDate.add(Calendar.MONTH, getMinMonth());
		maximumDate.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, getMinDate());
		return maximumDate;
	}
	private Calendar cloneCalendar(Calendar argDate){
		Calendar today = (Calendar) argDate.clone();
		today.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY , 0);
		today.set(Calendar.MINUTE , 0);
		today.set(Calendar.SECOND , 0);
		return today;
	}

int minYear;
	int minMonth;
	int minDate;
	int maxYear;
	int maxMonth;
	int maxDate;
	Date date;

public int getMinYear() {
		return minYear;
	}

public void setMinYear(int minYear) {
		this.minYear = minYear;
	}

public int getMinMonth() {
		return minMonth;
	}

public void setMinMonth(int minMonth) {
		this.minMonth = minMonth;
	}

public int getMinDate() {
		return minDate;
	}

public void setMinDate(int minDate) {
		this.minDate = minDate;
	}

public int getMaxYear() {
		return maxYear;
	}

public void setMaxYear(int maxYear) {
		this.maxYear = maxYear;
	}

public int getMaxMonth() {
		return maxMonth;
	}

public void setMaxMonth(int maxMonth) {
		this.maxMonth = maxMonth;
	}

public int getMaxDate() {
		return maxDate;
	}

public void setMaxDate(int maxDate) {
		this.maxDate = maxDate;
	}

public Date getDate() {
		return date;
	}

public void setDate(Date date) {
		this.date = date;
	}
}

validators.xml

<actionclassname>-validation.xml

Thanks all.