Hello everyone -- this is my first post. I'm hoping you can help with a problem. I've seen bits and pieces of this question asked, but not entirely...
Here's my problem: When the user enters data into a 'enter search parameters' form and validation fails, I don't want the URL to proceed to the 'perform the search' action. This means I have to use redirecting forwards for the 'input' attribute. However, with redirects... if I understand correctly... it's not good enough to store validation errors in the request attributes. They need to go into session scope. My problem is figuring out where this should happen. Experimentally, I now mask validate(), which basically does errors = super.validate(); request.getSession().setAttribute(ERROR_KEY, errors); return errors; but this feels rather nasty to me; validate() is supposed to return values, not cause side-effects... right? The problem is that RequestProcessor.java is entirely atomic all the way from calling validate() to performing the redirect. Is there some other way to do this that I'm missing? ... or should I not be doing what I'm doing? Is there some other way to get redirection to work, with the validator framework? Appreciate any help -- Par Winzell Madison, WI --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
