I don't see how that would work. If he just gets a normal validation problem, but no exceptions (the normal case) then he needs to go back to the jsp, not to some generic error.jsp. Isn't there a way to set up a generic exception handler page so that if the container catches an exception it forwards it to that page? I thought I remembered seeing something like that in this mailing list, but I can't find it now.
Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon.Ridgway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:30 AM Subject: RE: Help:Handling Exceptions within Formbean Validate ??? > Hi Greg, > > Try setting validate=true and input=<generic error.jsp> in your action > mapping. This way if your form bean returns ActionError(s) Struts will > return to the named input form to display errors (see html:error tag). > > Jon. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Callaghan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 December 2001 00:06 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Help:Handling Exceptions within Formbean Validate ??? > > Hi, > > With struts how is one supposed to handle exceptions which are caught within > > the validate method of a formbean? That is, how can you from here go to > ones generic error page? > > Background - I have a case where the form (eg create new X) has some pull > down lists which are dynamically generated. If the validate for the form > fails therefore and I need to go back to the input jsp page with error, I DO > > NEED TO re-extract the dynamic pull down list data from within the validate > method before it finishes (unless there is a better way?). If the database > is down during this phase however an exception is caught within the validate > > method. Also as my JSP page expects the data present I get a null pointer > exception in this situation hence the need to redirect to the normal error > page I use for exceptions. Question is how to make this happen from within > the validate method of the formbean? > > Any advice welcome. > > PS - I tried including a *.do for the input mapping, rather than the .jsp > mapping, however the problem here the recent changes in the form (eg if you > were doing an edit form) are not remembered. Eg if title was "xyz", then I > changed it to "", this causes a validation error but when going back to the > page via the action (cf directly to JSP) the end result is "xyz" is > displayed not "". > > Regards > Greg > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
