With validate="true" the controler validates the form (calls form.validate) before instanciate the action. The value is speed. Make sure to set input on <action
input - Context-relative path of the input form to which control should be returned if a validation error is encountered -----Original Message----- From: Michael J. Godfrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:07 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: validation="true" Excellent, I just subscribed to this group today so I appologize for missing the previous posts. I do NOT understand the value of having a validate="true" at all then. Can someone enlighten me? I like alternative 2 (form.validate()). And I am now using that. I still cant wrap my mind around having a validate="true" and firing it on the FIRST load..its kooky. just my 2 cents. -Michael -----Original Message----- From: Ady Das-O'Toole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:28 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: validation="true" Michael coincidentally enough the last few threads have addressed the same issue. To summarize you could do one of two things: 1. Define 2 identical action-mappings in your struts-config - Call the first one "firstVisitSomething...Action" and set validate=false Now when a user clicks on the link to go to your page for the first time you go here. - The second action-mapping will have validate=true, and your form action in your jsp will post to this action-mapping 2. The other way to do it is to set validate=false in your action mapping, then call form.validate() in your Action object when the mode is "submit" or some such. -----Original Message----- From: Michael J. Godfrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 4:16 PM To: Struts (E-mail) Subject: validation="true" Greetings, I am just starting to write a test app to learn struts. I have a validation="true" setting in struts-config.xml. When this is true, the validation happens when I OPEN a page. I have validation that is checking for existance of values, etc. For example. A login page with loginID, and password as fields. In the validate() I am checking for loginID == null and loginID.length() <1 etc etc. This is failing right out of the chute because the validation is firing when the darn thing loads. What am I doing wrong? I have read the jakarta FAQ's etc stating that low budget validation SHOULD be done in validate(). -Michael -- 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]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
