OI! STOP ALL THAT SHOUTING! ITS GIVING ME A HEADACHE. (I know your terminal can do lower case - I can see it in your sample code!)
And while Ive got your attention, it is *not* "AN ERROR IN STRUTS" that the checkbox is not submitted, it is a result of the html specifications (whose writers probably came up with the idea after a few too many beers and thought it would be a "bit of a laugh"). Browsers simply dont submit *anything* for an unticked checkbox and there isnt anything that struts can do about it apart from provide a workaround in the form of the reset() method. (Well actually I can think of one other thing it could do but it involves JS and hidden fields and I rather doubt the committers would approve.) If you had bothered to read the javadoc for the reset() method of the ActionForm class you would know this: <snip src=" http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/api/index.html "> Reset all bean properties to their default state. This method is called before the properties are repopulated by the controller servlet. The default implementation does nothing. Subclasses should override this method to reset all bean properties to default values. This method is not the appropriate place to initialize form values for an "update" type page (this should be done in a setup Action). You mainly need to worry about setting checkbox values to false; most of the time you can leave this method unimplemented </snip> (Note the bit about checkboxes) -----Original Message----- From: Mathew, Manoj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2003 21:48 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Struts form validation of radio buttons and checkboxes YES YOU R RIGHT. WHEN THE CHECK BOX IS NOT CHECKED, THE FORM WILL NOT EVEN HAVE THAT ELEMENT PRESENT. THIS IS AN ERROR IN STRUTS. IN OUR APPLICATION WE WROTE A CODE WHICH CHECK FOR THIS ELEMENT AN IT IS IS NOT THERE THEN MADE IT "FALSE" ALSO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE isCheckbox():return boolean instead if getCheckbox():return String in your action form. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Amaroso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 7:48 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Struts form validation of radio buttons and checkboxes Thanks for the response, but I don't think the problem lies with the actual validation that's happening. I suspect that when a user submits the form page without a checkbox/radio button checked, a blank variable is never sent to the form bean (i.e http://www.url.com/servlet.do?checkboxvar=), it just doesn't send anything. The form bean then sees it as as a nonexistent variable and returns a trace stack error. Any other ideas? I will however update my struts package. > From: Robert Leland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 22:09:14 -0400 > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Struts form validation of radio buttons and checkboxes > > Greg Amaroso wrote: > >> I'm having trouble with the struts form validation framework when it comes >> to radio buttons and checkboxes. For some reason, I can validate any other >> type of field, but not radios/checkboxes. Here's where I seem to be having >> trouble: >> >> > Try a --nightly-- build of struts. I believe it has enhancements in > commons-validator to validate > radio controls. you can tell for sure by looking at the validator-rules.xml. > > In there you'll see itels like : > function validateRequired(form) { > > //Stuff deleted..... > > if (field.type == 'text' || > //stuff deleted > field.type == 'radio' || > field.type == 'password') { > > So this says that for the 'required' rule radio is supported. > > Do the same for integer, byte, etc to see if 'radio' is supported. > >> In the struts-config.xml file, should the form-property type be set to >> java.lang.String or java.lang.Boolean? >> >> In the page with the form, does it look right to create the radio buttons >> like this: >> <html:form ......> >> <html:radio property="activity" value="a" /> >> <html:radio property="activity" value="b" /> >> <html:radio property="activity" value="c" /> >> </html:form> >> >> Are there any other tricks to doing this that differs from validating >> standard text boxes, textareas, etc.? >> >> Thank in advance. >> >> >> Greg Amaroso >> >> >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
