Your login.jsp seems to be missing the form and fields. Do you have your <html:javascript formName="UserForm"/> in it so you get the validation code? Does your login page form also set the <html:form onsubmit="return validateUserForm(this)" ....> ?
Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: M.Schipperheyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DynaValidator can't get validation to work Hi, I'm a newbie and I can't get validation to work using Dynabeans and validation. Any help's appreciated. All the stuff I find on-line just doesn't seem to cut it. I'm getting no errors. When I post an empty username or password, no errors are shown on the page. Input doesn't seem to get validated. [Struts-config] <form-beans> <form-bean dynamic="true" name="UserForm" type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm"> <form-property name="username" type="java.lang.String" /> <form-property name="password" type="java.lang.String" /> </form-bean> </form-beans> <action-mappings> <action input="/logon.jsp" name="UserForm" path="/logon" scope="request" type="nl.executieverkoop.action.LogonAction" validate="true" > <forward name="success" path="home" /> <forward name="failure" path="login" /> </action> </action-mappings> <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn"> <set-property property="pathnames" value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,/WEB-INF/validator.xml" /> </plug-in> validator.xml and validator-rules.xml are getting loaded. I can see it in the log. [validator.xml] <formset> <form name="UserForm"> <field property="username" depends="required"> <msg name="required" key="prompt.username.required"/> </field> <field property="password" depends="required,minLength"> <arg0 key="prompt.password"/> <var> <var-name>minlength</var-name> <var-value>3</var-value> </var> </field> </form> </formset> [LogonAction] public class LogonAction extends Action { public ActionForward execute( ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { DynaValidatorForm userForm = (DynaValidatorForm) form; Session session; UserBean user; Locale locale = getLocale(request); MessageResources messages = getResources(request); String username = (String) PropertyUtils.getSimpleProperty(form, "username"); String password = (String) PropertyUtils.getSimpleProperty(form, "password"); //hibernate lookup user try{ SessionFactory sf = (SessionFactory) servlet.getServletContext().getAttribute("HIBERNATE_SESSION_FACTORY"); session = sf.openSession(); List users = session.find("from UserBean as user where user.username = ? and user.password = ?", new Object[]{username, password},new Type[] { Hibernate.STRING, Hibernate.STRING} ); if(users.isEmpty()) { return mapping.findForward("failure"); } sf.close(); }catch (HibernateException e) { System.out.println(e); } return mapping.findForward("success"); } } [logon.jsp] <%@ page language="java" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld" prefix="logic" %> <logic:messagesPresent> <UL> <html:messages id="error"> <LI><bean:write name="error"/></LI> </html:messages> </UL> . Any ideas? Kind regards, Marc --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]