Struts 1.1.3 validator framework not working

[Gaurav P Goel]

Hi,

I am using struts 1.1.3 version. I want to use validator framework. I have configured everything according to struts documentation, but still the validator framework is not getting called.

struts-config.xml

<form-bean name="subscriptionForm" type="com.nsdl.caportal.forms.SubscriptionForm">

<action path="/saveSubscription" 
				name="subscriptionForm"  
				scope="request" 
				type="com.nsdl.caportal.actions.SubscriptionAction"				
				validate="true"
				input="page.caforms.viewSubscriptionForm">
			<forward name="view" path="viewSubscription.do" />
		</action>

validation.xml

<!DOCTYPE form-validation PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Commons Validator Rules Configuration 1.1.3//EN" 
"http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/validator_1_1_3.dtd">

<form-validation>
	<formset>
		
		<!-- Subscription Form -->
   		<form name="subscriptionForm">
	      	<field property="refNo" depends="required">
			    <arg0 key="label.newSubscription.refno" />			    
			</field>    
		</form>
			
	</formset>
</form-validation>

validation-rules.xml

      <validator name="required"
            classname="org.apache.struts.validator.FieldChecks"
               method="validateRequired"
         methodParams="java.lang.Object,
                       org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction,
                       org.apache.commons.validator.Field,
                       org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors,
                       javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest"
                  msg="errors.required">
      </validator>

SubscriptionForm.java extends ValidatorForm.

SubscriptionAdd.jsp calls /saveSubscription when submitted.

<html:form styleId="form" action="/saveSubscription" onsubmit="return validateSubscriptionForm(this)">

SubscriptionAction.java

package com.nsdl.caportal.actions;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.struts.action.ActionError;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import org.apache.struts.actions.MappingDispatchAction;

import com.nsdl.caportal.forms.SubscriptionForm;

/**
 * @version 1.0
 * @author
 */
public class SubscriptionAction extends MappingDispatchAction {

	public ActionForward save(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
			HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
			throws Exception {

		ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
		String flowStatus = "view";
		SubscriptionForm subscriptionForm = (SubscriptionForm) form;

		try {
			
			flowStatus = "view";
			
		} catch (Exception e) {

			// Report the error using the appropriate name and ID.
			errors.add("name", new ActionError("id"));

		}

		if (!errors.isEmpty()) {
			saveErrors(request, errors);

			// Forward control to the appropriate 'failure' URI (change name as
			// desired)
			// forward = mapping.findForward("failure");

		} else {

			// Forward control to the appropriate 'success' URI (change name as
			// desired)
			// forward = mapping.findForward("success");

		}

		// Finish with
		return mapping.findForward(flowStatus);

	}
	
	public ActionForward view(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
			HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
			throws Exception {
		ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
		String flowStatus = "view";
		SubscriptionForm subscriptionForm = (SubscriptionForm) form;

		try {
			flowStatus = "view";
			
			
		} catch (Exception e) {

			// Report the error using the appropriate name and ID.
			errors.add("name", new ActionError("id"));

		}

		// If a message is required, save the specified key(s)
		// into the request for use by the <struts:errors> tag.

		if (!errors.isEmpty()) {
			saveErrors(request, errors);

			// Forward control to the appropriate 'failure' URI (change name as
			// desired)
			// forward = mapping.findForward("failure");
			flowStatus = "failure";

		} else {

			// Forward control to the appropriate 'success' URI (change name as
			// desired)
			// forward = mapping.findForward("success");
			flowStatus = "view";
		}

		// Finish with
		return mapping.findForward(flowStatus);
	}
}

Kindly let me know if something is wrong above. Thanks a lot.

[Shankar Tanikella]

have you mentioned your form name in your JSP, If no, just add the below line within the html:form tag.

<html:javascript formName="SubscriptionForm" />