What about to create a collection of errors with the page references and display a unique error page with the list of the errors and the page where they occurred?
Just an idea. Marco -----Original Message----- From: Larry Zappeterrini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:39 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Form validation across multiple pages This question may be more appropriate for the developer's mailing list, but I thought that I would post it here to see what kind of sentiment there is in Struts' user land. I have been attempting to implement a form that spans multiple pages that utilizes Struts' validator plug-in. I create an action in the configuration file and associate a subclass of DispatchAction with the intention of mapping each step in the form to a method in the object. Next, I create forward elements within the action to correspond to a page in the form. This works fine for stepping through the form without errors from start to finish. The problem arises when an error is caught by the validator. The way that validator errors are handled in the RequestProcessor(s) included with Struts is to forward control to whatever resource is specified in the action's input attribute. This may not necessarily be the page on which the error occurred, so the flow of the application is disrupted. The only way around this is to make each step of the process into its own action so that each step has its own input. This is sub optimal in my opinion. I am curious to know if there has been any discussion about addressing this situation. A cursory search of the mail archives for the user and developer lists has turned up nothing. To implement mutliple page form validation in the way that I am envisioning would probably require changes in some core parts of Struts, so I wonder if anyone else would find this desirable. Or maybe I am missing some part of the bigger picture that precludes my suggestion. Any thoughts? Thanks, Larry *************************************************************************** This electronic mail transmission contains confidential and/or privileged information intended only for the person(s) named. Any use, distribution, copying or disclosure by another person is strictly prohibited. *************************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
