can we have multiple validation.xml files to handle valdations of different forms?

[kiran nyala]

hi

can we have multiple validation.xml files to handle valdations of different forms?

I have written only one validation.xml, one formbean (ActionForm) to handle multiple jsp form elements. But when i use validation frame work all validations written in validation.xml are taking place irrespective of submitting JSP form elements.
so i need to validate only the elements submitted in jsp using this single validation.xml, is there any way to do it?

My code is as follows (Struts 1.2)

1)index.jsp

<html:form action="/customer">
 
    <bean:message key="label.name" />
    <html:text property="name"></html:text>
    <br />
    <bean:message key="label.age" />
    <html:text property="age"></html:text>
    <br />
 
    <html:submit value="Submit"></html:submit>
 
</html:form>

2)home.jsp

<html:form action="/home">
 
    <bean:message key="label.email" />
    <html:text property="email"></html:text>
    <br />
    <bean:message key="label.telephone" />
    <html:text property="telephone"></html:text>
    <br />
 
    <html:submit value="Submit"></html:submit>
 
</html:form>

3)struts-config.xml

<action-mappings >
  	<action path="/customer" name="CustomerForm" validate="true"
        input="/index.jsp"
        type="com.action.CustomerAction">
        <forward name="success" path="/home.jsp" />
        <forward name="failure" path="/index.jsp" />
    </action>
    
    <action path="/home" name="CustomerForm" validate="true"
        input="/home.jsp"
        type="com.action.HomeAction">
        <forward name="success" path="/success.jsp" />
        <forward name="failure" path="/index.jsp" />
    </action>
    
    
  </action-mappings>
  <message-resources parameter="com.yourcompany.struts.ApplicationResources" />
  <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
    <set-property property="pathnames"
        value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,
                /WEB-INF/validation.xml" />

4) validation.xml

<form name="CustomerForm">
        <field property="name" depends="required , mask">
            <arg key="label.name" />
            <var>
                <var-name>mask</var-name>
                 <var-value>^[a-zA-Z]*$</var-value>
            </var>
        </field>
        <field property="age" depends="required, integer, intRange">
            <arg key="label.age" />
            <arg1 key="${var:min}" resource="false"/>
            <arg2 key="${var:max}" resource="false"/>
            <var>
                <var-name>min</var-name>
                <var-value>1</var-value>
            </var>
            <var>
                <var-name>max</var-name>
                <var-value>125</var-value>
            </var>
        </field>
         <field property="email" depends="required , email">
            <arg key="label.email" />
         </field>
        
        <field property="telephone" depends="required, mask">
            <arg key="label.telephone" />
            <arg1 key="label.telephone" />
            <var>
                <var-name>mask</var-name>
                <var-value>${telephoneFormat}</var-value>
            </var>
        </field>
       
    </form>

[Yogesh Lonkar]

you can make multiple validation.xml file depending on Action classes such e.g.

<actionClass>-<actionAlias>-validation.xml
yourActionClass-firstAction-validation.xml
yourActionClass-secondAction-validation.xml