How to do form validation ?

[michelle Wang]

Currently I using ActionForm's validate method to do the validation of the form when submit.Is this the best way to do form validation?
Bellow is my validate method, but ActionError(String)is deprecated.

public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping,
HttpServletRequest request) {
ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
if (userID == null || userID .trim().equals("")) {
errors.add("userID ",new ActionError("error.user.userID .null"));
}
return errors;
}
[ June 02, 2005: Message edited by: michelle W ]

[bhuvan sundar]

Hello Michelle!!

Form validation can be done in two ways:Manaul and Automatic. The one you have done is Manual Validation. Automatic Validation is done by enabling <html:javascript/> in your jsp.

For more details,go thru the following pdf:

Apache Struts:Automatically Validating Input

Hope this will be useful
[ June 02, 2005: Message edited by: bhuvan sundar ]

[peter wooster]

You can do validation using the valaidate method of ActionForm or you can use the Validator. This allows declarative validation.