With a little further investigation I see that the page value does not get set in the validationForm using html:hidden approach as outlined below. Ie, this doen't work:
<html:hidden name="validateForm" property="page" value="1" />
When I print out the value of the page field in the action, it is still set to zero.
How do you set the page property?
Also, this seems to imply the validator is VERY shaky over multiple pages. For example, the properties on my second page are marked as required, and they don't get validated in the first action (this seems to show that the page based validation is working), yet on the second page, the associated action tries to validate the page 1 properties!!!
I believe the server side validation validates any page <= the current page and the client side javascript just validates the current page.
David
Arrrg!! What's going on! Has anyone got this to work?
Brian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian McSweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: Form validation over multiple pages
Hi all,
I'm almost there with using the validator over several pages with a single form. However I'm getting a strange little error. The first page is validating fine, and it doesn't seem to try to validate the info required on the second page - correct. However once I try to validate the second page, the javascript validates correctly, but the server side validation returns an error saying the first page's required field needs validating.
I think it might be because I'm not sure how to pass the page parameter to the action. I've tried using a html:hidden tag. Anyway, snippets from the jsps, struts config and validation.xml file are included below.
If someone could help me out I'd be very grateful. Thanks very much, Brian.
My first jsp named "validatestep1.jsp" looks like:
<html:javascript formName="validateForm" page="1"/>
<html:form action="/secure/validateStep1.jspa" onsubmit="return validateValidateForm(this);" method="post"> <html:hidden name="validateForm" property="page" value="1" /> <table> <tr><td>username</td> <td><html:text name="validateForm" property="userName" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"> <html:image border="0" page="/images/button_submit.gif"/> </td> </tr> </table> </html:form>
My second jsp named "validatestep2.jsp" looks like
<html:javascript formName="validateForm" page="2"/> <html:form action="/secure/validateStep2.jspa" onsubmit="return validateValidateForm(this);" method="post"> <html:hidden name="validateForm" property="page" value="2" /> <table> <tr> <td>credit card with no spaces or dashes</td> <td><html:text name="validateForm" property="creditCard" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"> <html:image border="0" page="/images/button_submit.gif"/> </td> </tr> </table> </html:form>
in my struts config I have
<action path="/secure/validateStep1" type="ValidateStep1Action" name="validateForm" scope="session" input="/validatestep1.jsp" unknown="false" validate="true" > <forward name="success" path="/validatestep2.jsp" redirect="false" />
and then
<action path="/secure/validateStep2" type="ValidateStep2Action" name="validateForm" scope="session" input="/validatestep2.jsp" unknown="false" validate="true" > <forward name="success" path="/validated.jsp" redirect="false" />
In my validation.xml file I have
<form name="validateForm"> <field property="userName" depends="required,minlength" page="1">
<field property="creditCard" depends="required,creditCard" page="2">
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