This is an interesting thing. Here is the way to avoid Struts calls validate method on ActionForm
This one Struts framework will NOT call validate method on ActionForm <html:cancel value="Cancel" /> While this one does <html:cancel property="mycancelbutton" value="Cancel" /> The only difference is if you do have property, Struts adds name="your_data". While if you don't have property set, Struts add name="org.apache.struts.taglib.html.CANCEL". Why these make the difference????? Jiin-Her Lu (816) 926-2145 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/04 05:45PM >>> The Struts Validator provides a mechanism to deal with Cancel buttons. A flag is set in the onclick method for the cancel button in the jsp page. The validate methods check this flag and if it is set, they skip validation and just return true. <html:cancel onclick="bCancel=true;"> If you're not using the Struts Validator, maybe you could try mimicking this behavior in your validate method ?? Brian Barnett -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Pitts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:16 PM To: Struts List Subject: Validation problem I am wondering how to solve the following problem with a minimal amount of recoding, and hope someone can give some input. I have a form the has three html:submit buttons -- Update, Cancel and Delete. I am using a LookupDispatchAction and an ActionForm with the validation in the validate() method. Under normal conditions everything works fine......But when a user clicks Update with invalid data on the form, the validate method catches the bad data and returns the proper error message. If the user then decides to click Cancel (without changing the invalid data), the validate() method is still called and the user is returned the same error. One thing that I might be able to do is to somehow find out what button was clicked in the validate() method...?? How would I do that, I wonder... thanks in advance, -nathan --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
