Hello David,
I think that the main problem in struts-validator is because is highly
coupled with ActionForm. Ok, I can use commons-validator. But, my idea is:
* Put the validation rules in only one place (a XML file that can be
read and interpretated by struts and my business rule);
* The validation rule also has the type of a column (indicating if is
boolean, data, String, BigDecimal, ... );
* The struts tags will generate JavaScript to validate the input of
data;
* My business rule will check if all data is ok again (because the user
can turn off JavaScript).
My business rule generaly receives a Value Object to insert or update
data. My VO is dynamic - I say which columns and rows they will have. If I
know the type of data that came from ActionForm (I always use String in
ActionForms) I can convert on fly the data between ActionForm and VO.
Theres is a sample example:
----- Action ------
MyValueObject vo = new MyValueObject( form ); // Works because I
will know the types of columns in ActionForm - it's defined in XML
MyBusinessObject bo = new MyBusinessObject();
bo.insert( vo );
----- MyBusinessObject -----
public void insert( MyValueObject vo )
{
if not checkIfAlwaysIsOk( vo ) { throw new Exception( "..." ); }
insertIntoDatabase( );
// If a need to get some data from VO, I use - vo.get( lineNumber,
columnNumber )
}
public boolean checkIfAlwaysIsOk( vo )
{
return Validator.checkIfRulesIsOk( vo, "file with xml
definitions" );
// Validator is a generic class that will be used by
struts-validator and my business rule
}
Thanks,
Regis Melo
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: Validator and business rule
> You can use the generic commons-validator in your business logic if you
> want. The Struts version and the commons version can use the same xml
> config file for the validation rules.
>
> David
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> >From: "Regis Melo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Validator and business rule
> >Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 18:23:00 -0300
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> >Hello,
> >
> > Why Struts-validator is so highly coupled with ActionForms? I think
> >that is a good idea to use struts-validator to do some work in my
business
> >classes. How can I do that?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Regis Melo
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