Re: Date validation problem?

[Brice Ruth]

OK, how do I enable server-side validation? I have validate="true" in my 
action-mapping definition, is that all I need?!

Andy Schmidgall wrote:

No, you should be able to do both. I was just saying that if you had
counted on datePattern functionality, and you switch to
datePatternStrict, you may get slightly different results as they are
supposed to act slightly differently. :)
-Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Brice Ruth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 11:08 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Date validation problem?

How exactly do I get server-side validation? Is this an XOR condition? 
Either javascript or server-side, but not both?

Andy Schmidgall wrote:

 

The javascript should work, yes. I haven't tried this with serverside 
validation though. DatePattern works (or is supposed to work) 
differently than datePatternStrict, so be aware that if you were 
counting on datePattern functionality serverside, it may not work as 
you had expected.

-Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Brice Ruth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:44 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Date validation problem?
Aha, so all I need to do is change "datePattern" to "datePatternStrict"
in my XML?
Andy Schmidgall wrote:



   

datePattern doesn't work -- you must use datePatternStrict unless you
modify the javascript validation function.
This line is where the pattern is loaded:

var datePattern = oDate[x][2]("datePatternStrict");

Notice that it's loading datePatternStrict instead of datePattern from
the oDate object. The validation function completely ignores the 
datePattern var you defined in the xml.

You're getting the error because it's trying to load from the
datePatternStrict var which isn't defined, so the javascript 
datePattern var isn't a valid object.

-Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Brice Ruth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:55 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Date validation problem?
I'm testing the JavaScript validation for my form and noticed that the
     

 

JavaScript generated to validate my date fields throws an error that I
     

 

can see in Firebird's JavaScript console. Here's the error:

datePattern has no properties

and here's the line it occurs on:

for (x in oDate) {

	var value = form[oDate[x][0]].value;

	var datePattern = oDate[x][2]("datePatternStrict");



  

     

	if ((form[oDate[x][0]].type == 'text' || form[oDate[x][0]].type
   

      

         

==

  

     

'textarea') && value.length > 0 && datePattern.length > 0) {
   

      

         

		var MONTH = "MM";

		var DAY = "dd";

		var YEAR = "yyyy";

I can see that my date fields appear correctly in DateValidations(),
here:
 function DateValidations () {

  this.aa = new Array("theStartDate", "Availability Start Date is
not a valid date.", new Function ("varName", 
"this.datePattern='MM/dd/yy'; return this[varName];"));

  this.ab = new Array("theEndDate", "Availability End Date is not a
valid date.", new Function ("varName", "this.datePattern='MM/dd/yy'; 
return this[varName];"));

 }

And in my validation.xml file, the following is defined:

<field property="theStartDate" depends="required,date">

	<arg0 key="form.orangeThumbApp.theStartDate"/>

	<var>

		<var-name>datePattern</var-name>

		<var-value>${defaultDate}</var-value>

	</var>

</field>

<field property="theEndDate" depends="required,date">

	<arg0 key="form.orangeThumbApp.theEndDate"/>

	<var>

		<var-name>datePattern</var-name>

		<var-value>${defaultDate}</var-value>

	</var>

</field>

Where ${defaultDate} is a global defined as:

<constant>

	<constant-name>defaultDate</constant-name>

	<constant-value>MM/dd/yy</constant-value>

</constant>

     

From what I can see in DateValidations(), it looks like the var-value 
   

is being picked up correctly ... so, I'm at a bit of a loss on this. 
Is
  

     



   

this a know bug in Struts 1.1?

Also, does using DynaValidatorForm with validation.xml and such *only*
     

 

do JavaScript validation or is server-side validation performed as
  

     

well?

   

It'd be a nice bonus to have server-side validation, to prevent 
corrupt or malicious submittals, but that may require a custom 
ActionForm?!

  

     



   

 

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Brice D. Ruth
Sr. IT Analyst
Fiskars Brands, Inc.
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