Thanks for the responses, David and Wendy.
In order to determine if a particular form field is required, I need to
determine the property of another field. Therefore, I thought it would be
best to hold this other property in a hidden field.
I have tried to validate it as any other input field, but have not had any
luck. Any suggestions/ideas? Thanks much!
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From: Wendy Smoak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:36 PM
Subject: RE: Struts Validator and Hidden Field
I was wondering if it is possible to validate a hidden field using the
Struts Validator framework. If so, an example would be extremely
helpful.
Validator is a separate project in the Jakarta Commons, it's not part of
Struts proper.
Sure you could validate a hidden field, but what's the poor user supposed
to
do when you toss back an error that such-and-such field is required? He
can't DO anything about it, the field is hidden! (Unless perhaps there's
client side scripting setting a value when he fills in a visible field?)
I don't see it as any different than validating a text box, did you try it
and it didn't work? By the time the request gets turned into a Form bean,
Struts doesn't know or care that the field was hidden on the HTML form it
came from.
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Wendy Smoak
Applications Systems Analyst, Sr.
Arizona State University, PA, IRM
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