all,
i would like to propose that a public method be added to the
ActionErrors class to retrieve an enumeration of all the property
names that have errors associated with them. additionally, a size
method should be added to return the count of the number of properties
that have errors associated with them.
there currently is no way to associate an ActionError with a particular
property unless you a priori know the property name in question. this
is particularly troublesome when trying to use a generic error page
to display validation errors. typically, in such a page, one needs to
display the field/property name associated with its errors.
See, for example, this rendition of an error page:
Validation Failure:
property1 - some error message1
- some error message2
property2 - some error message3
property3 - some error message4
- some error message5
Additionally, when the user goes back to the page with the relevant
form, it is useful to somehow visually highlight the labels for the form
entry fields in question. without being able to get at the property
names with errors, it's extremely difficult to accomplish this.
the _errors_ tag certainly provides no help in any of these situations.
perhaps create some new error tags that allow you to iterate
errors grouped by property and to get at the property and error
messages independently (embedded in HTML markup in JSP).
e
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