Another "Validator Plugin" Problem

[Erap Estrada]

I am hoping to use validation framework by extending "ValidatorForm" and comment out the "validate" method. But it seems that validation does not work and request goes to "Action" class even with empty field. Here are the snippet of my codes.

* struts-config.xml

<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
<set-property property="pathnames"
value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,/WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>
</plug-in>

* form class

public class LoginForm extends ValidatorForm {

private String email;
private String password;

public String getEmail() {
return email;
}
public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;
}
public String getPassword() {
return password;
}
public void setPassword(String password) {
this.password = password;
}

* validation.xml

<formset>
<form name="loginForm">
<field property="email" depends="required">
<arg key="no.email" resource="true"/>
</field>
<field property="password" depends="required">
<arg key="no.password" resource="true"/>
</field>
</form>
</formset>

PLEASE HELP!

[ April 19, 2007: Message edited by: Erap Estrada ]
[ April 19, 2007: Message edited by: Erap Estrada ]

[Dom Lassy]

Is something like this in your struts-config.xml?

<form-beans>
        <form-bean name="loginForm" type="com.whatever.LoginForm"/>
</form-beans>

It is case sensitive as well.

Also, have you validated your validation.xml file and are you getting any exceptions when you start the app?

[Erap Estrada]

Yes and here's my action mapping

<action-mappings>
<action path="/login"
scope="request"
name="loginForm"
input="/jsp/index.jsp"
validate="true"
type="com.whatever.LoginAction">
<forward name="success" path="/jsp/myTickets.jsp"/>
<forward name="failure" path="/jsp/index.jsp"/>
</action>
<action path="/addNewTicket" scope="session" forward="/jsp/newTicketForm.jsp"/>
</action-mappings>

Anything that i have missed? I have read 3 Struts books and read it again and again but the configuration is so simple to do, but for unknown reason, i can't make it run. I just want to use the basic validation through XML.

There were no errors on startup.

Thanks in advance Javaranch People.
[ April 20, 2007: Message edited by: Erap Estrada ]

[Erap Estrada]

any idea why dynavalidatorform or validatorform is not working?

[Erap Estrada]

FOUND THE SOLUTION:

This may help newbies of hours if not days of headaches.

The solution to my problem is, defining the actual path of "validator-rules.xml" in <plug-in> declaration in struts-config.xml.

(one reason i dont really like working on xml as it does not tell you the exact problem)

so instead of this:

<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
   <set-property property="pathnames" value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,/WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>
  </plug-in>    

make the declaration like this:

<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
   <set-property property="pathnames" value="/org/apache/struts/validator/validator-rules.xml,/WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>
  </plug-in>    

Now, the weird thing is, why cant the server see the "validator-rules.xml" where it can see the file "validation.xml" in the same folder.

[Erap Estrada]

Another suspicion is, i have a bad "validator-rules.xml" that i downloaded from a certain website. Just to make sure, get the file from the struts core downloaded directly from their site.