Struts validation problem

[mdmohideen]

Hi All,
I have a question on Struts.
Here is the scenario, I am clicking a action menu item. It calls an struts action x and forwards to a jsp page.
Once I fill the form(DynaValidatorForm), then I am submitting and calling the same action x. Now the form has to be validated.
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When I set the validate = true in the config for this particular action, the form loading fails becoz of validation fails. The validate is invoked since the action path is same for load and submit.
I need a solution for this problem. I want to set the validate attribute only when the form is submitted, not while loading.
Please help me in this issue.
Appreciate your effort for this reading issue.
Thanks,
Mohideen.

 

[venur]

Hi,

I am not sure as I haven't tried this. But there is an alternate way. May be this could help you. Create a DummyAction when you are loding a page and validate the form when you submit the page with values.

Ex:

<action path=&quot;/Test&quot; type=&quot;com.test.action.DummyAction&quot;>
<forward name=&quot;success&quot; path=&quot;/test.jsp&quot;/>
</action>

Then

<action path=&quot;/Test&quot; type=&quot;com.test.action.OrginalAction&quot; validate=&quot;true&quot;>
<forward name=&quot;success&quot; path=&quot;/destPage.jsp&quot;/>
</action>

All your DummyAction will have a simple forward to the test page in the execute method.

Cheers,
-Venu

 

[venur]

Sorry,

Please in action mapping change the Path either for DummyAction or OrginalAction, it should not be same.

Cheers,
-Venu

 

[mdmohideen]

Hi Venur,
Thanks for your response. My tech manager gave me another way to implement this.
For the form load view, he suggested me to have a displayaction. On submit to different action.
something like this,
Ex:

<action path=&quot;/displayform&quot; type=&quot;com.test.action.DisplayFormAction&quot;>
<forward name=&quot;success&quot; path=&quot;/form.jsp&quot;/>
</action>

Then

<action path=&quot;/manageform&quot; type=&quot;com.test.action.ManageFormAction&quot; validate=&quot;true&quot;>
<forward name=&quot;success&quot; path=&quot;/form.jsp&quot;/>
</action>

Your response is correlating with the above one. By this way we can avoid a dummy action.

Thanks again,
Mohideen.