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Hi,

In my JSP's, I first want to make surethat all inputs are entered by user before sending it to the Servlet. I tried using the code :

I tried putting the script after <html> or before <html>, but I get the same error - Object doesn't support this property at line referring DOCtype & other at <option> Dermatologist</option> line. If I don't add any script & do all validations checking in the servlet only, thne its working fine. But I don't want to show error on other page & then redirect here. I want to solve any input error here only & then call the servlet with pure data.

I used a differnt method to do all validation checking in other jsp by setting action="other.jsp". At presnet that jsp is only :

I had used <script>alert("Enter ID"); </script> instead of out.println

Here also I get :

that refers to the <% tag after </h1>

Can anyone help me out, where am I going wrong. I would prefer chcking for input in the same file only. Please help me out with the above problems.

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Hello Trupti,

Can you edit your post and disable the HTML? You can see that how hard your code is to debug. eg. < is converted to <

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Hi,

In my JSP's, I first want to make surethat all inputs are entered by user before sending it to the Servlet. I tried using the code :

I tried putting the script after html and before html, but I get the same error - Object doesn't support this property at line referring DOCtype and other at option - Dermatologist line. If I don't add any script and do all validations checking in the servlet only making the button as submit type, then its working fine. But I don't want to show error on other page and then redirect here. I want to solve any input error here only and then call the servlet with pure data.

I used a differnt method to do all validation checking in other jsp by setting action as loginProceed.jsp. At present that jsp is only :

I had used instead of out.println

Here also I get :

that refers to the scriptlet tag after h1 tag

Can anyone help me out, where am I going wrong. I would prefer chcking for input in the same file only. Please help me out with the above problems.

Thanks

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Trupti (SCJP)

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You can't check the value in the JSP. JSP executes on the server in order to format the HTML to send to the browser. So how can you check the values that the user entered before the page even gets sent to the browser?

Please read this article to understand how JSP works.

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You need to do some debugging

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Thanks Bear for the info.

Then what and how should be done for validating with only using JSP/Servlets. This tells me that the checking & validations should be done only in Servlet or basically other JSP. Please Correct me if I am wrong.

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Validation should be done in the servlet to which you are submitting the form to.

Your JSPs should never do any validation or other data processing,. That's the job of a servlet. Your JSPs, in fact, should never contain any Java code at all.

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I would just do validation at the both sides.
At the client side for the user experience.
At the server side for the robustness.

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Bauke Scholtz wrote:I would just do validation at the both sides.
At the client side for the user experience.
At the server side for the robustness.

Exactly. I don't even consider client-side validation to be real validation -- I consider it part of the context-sensitive help!

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Hello Bauke Scholtz & Bear Bibeault,

This is what I am also looking for. I don't intend to do validations like user name exists or not, etc in the JSP. That all is and strictly done in servlets only. I intend to do clinet side validations only - like in a form some inputs are not done then alert the user to enter it. I am looking out for such validations which I have also pointed from start. Like in a login form lets say, user has not entered user id or password & clicked login button. Then the user should be asked to enter those details and then only login button should go to the servlet. How do I achive this client side validation is my main point. As you both agree that client side validations should be and can be done on client side i.e. JSP page then how do I do the same.

I hope now my question is very clear and will be able to help me accordingly.

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Hi Trupti i am providing you a validation code,which i have done myself its basic validation which any form needs,u can use for different elements.I have done for few like select etc.Phone numbers etc in my form.Just try to implement it.It is working code.

<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
            "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

else{ 
    return true;
  }
}
</script>

<html>
<head><title>Validate Example</title></head>
<body><h1>Form Validations</h1>

<form name="f" action= hi.jsp onsubmit="return chk() && alphanumeric() && Isnumeric() && combobox() && p() && radio_button_checker() && checkbox()">
Enter age1<input name=age1 size="21"></br>
age2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input name=age2 size="24"></br>
phone&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type=text name=phone size="24"></br>
fname&nbsp;&nbsp;<input name="fname" size="24"></br>
technology <select  name="technology">
      <option value="-1">Select</option>
      <option value="JSP">Java Server Pages</option>
      <option value="Servlet">Servlet</option>
      <option value="PHP">PHP</option>
      <option value="ASP">ASP</option>
    </select></br>
   
<input type="radio" value="A" name="radio_button">A
<br>
<input type="radio" value="B" name="radio_button">B
<br>
<input type="radio" value="C" name="radio_button">C
<br>
<input type="radio" value="D" name="radio_button">D
<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="CHKBOX_1" value="1">1</p>
<input type="checkbox" name="CHKBOX_2" value="2">2</p>
<input type="checkbox" name="CHKBOX_3" value="3">3</p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">

</form>
</body>
</html>

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If you want to set focus after alert on specified field just add this after alert.Depends on ahat you want.Like Phone number wrong entered will have to be cleared then set focus.Else just set focus.

Hope this helps u.

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Hello,

Thanks for the code, Supriya. I added chk() & implemented my fields. Initially it worked well, but after I added few more fileds and changed the method name from chk() to checkEmpty() & tried, it started going directly to the servlet. I removed all added fields, renamed the method name & made everything as it was working, but yet now it goes to the servlet only. Restarted the IDE, Clean and Build, but no differnce. Here is the code :

<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

return true;   
    }

</script>
   
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>JSP Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>

<h1 align="center" style="color=fuchsia">Register Patient</h1>
    
    <form name="regForm" onsubmit="return chk()">
        <table border="4"  >
             <thead>
                 <tr>
                     <th></th>
                     <th></th>
                 </tr>
             </thead>
             <tbody>
                <tr>
                     <td>
                         Name * 
                     </td>
                     <td>
                         <select name="prefix">
                             <option value="-1" selected>Select</option>
                             <option value="Mr">Mr</option>
                             <option value="Mrs">Mrs</option>
                             <option value="Ms">Ms</option>
                         </select>
                         <input type="text" name="patName" value="" size="15" />
                     </td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>NRIC *</td>
                     <td><input name="nric" type="text" maxlength="8"></td>
                 </tr>
                <tr>
                     <td>Address * </td>
                     <td><input type="text" name="address" value="" size="50" /></td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>Office Tel</td>
                     <td><input type="text" name="offTel" value="" size="15" /></td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>Mobile Tel</td>
                     <td><input type="text" name="mobTel" value="" size="15" /></td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>Gender * </td>
                     <td><select name="gender">
                             <option value="-1" selected>Select</option>
                             <option value="Male">Male</option>
                             <option value="Female">Female</option>
                     </select></td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>Age * </td>
                     <td><input type="text" name="age" value="" size="3" /></td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>Marital Status * </td>
                     <td><select name="marStatus">
                             <option value="-1" selected>Select</option>
                             <option value="Single">Single</option>
                             <option value="Married">Married</option>
                     </select></td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>Email *</td>
                     <td><input type="text" name="email" value="" size="35" /></td>
                 </tr>
 
                 <tr>
                         <td><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="resetAll" /></td>
                         <td><input type="submit" value="Register" name="registerBtn" /> </td>
                 </tr>
             </tbody>
         </table>
    </form>

</body>
</html>

Is it that sometimes it will work and sometimes not. The servlet just displays "Into Servlet" at present. I had also added a function "validateAll" and called chk from it. Removed that also -I just wanted to cal la single function and do all activities; go out whenever false. Can you tell what should be the reason behind just type of reaction. I use Sun Application Server 9.1 with NetBeans.

Isn't this kind of programming liable ???

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Trupti (SCJP)

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Hi Trupti,

if the code you run is exactly what you wrote here, then I spotted a problem at line 39: two "" immediately after alert(:

Generally, unrelated to your problem here: not a bad idea is to use try-catch(-finally) around the js code in the method and proper treat/log/alert any caught exception, as it gives the code robustness, saves time at debug, ...

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Hi Trupti as Cristian said remove extra

"

alert(""Enter a 8 character long NRIC number.");

i removed it and your code works fine.
When using javascript in netbeans,u cannot find errors easily ,you have to be careful look out for errors.

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Changing method name does not change its functionality.You need to be careful how you call.And rest coding and minute details.

Is it that sometimes it will work and sometimes not

No it is not.

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Thank you Cristain and Supriya.
Cristain I was wondering in <script ...> how can we add scriplets for try/catch/finally. I belive in robustness programming and in my normal programming I use it a lot. But don't how about this case, kind of newbie....

I also have to look out for logging implementation, to trap error messages and information.

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Hi Trupti,

I mean in javascript, like this:

In exception handling, besides other actions, I do usually also a log on the server, with stacktrace and everything, as in java.
Like this I can look into the log file on client's server and see what happend, where, why ...

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