Validating indexed properties

[Bill Siggelkow]

I posted this message to the commons-user list but didn't receive any 
feedback. Basically, I am trying to get the indexedListProperty feature 
of Validator to allow me to report errors correctly for each property on 
a form that fails validation -- the only way I could get it to work was 
to change the Validator Field class -- I am trying to find out if there 
are any other known work arounds.
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I have been working with indexedListProperty in Struts 1.2 (using 
Validator 1.1.3, I believe). Suppose I have the following validation:

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<field property="partNumber" indexedListProperty="orders"
        depends="minlength">
   <arg position="0" key="prompt.partNumber"/>
   <arg position="1" key="${var:minlength}"
        resource="false"/>
   <var>
       <var-name>minlength</var-name>
       <var-value>5</var-value>
   </var>
</field>
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Now, when I validate the form, if the minlength validation fails on one 
of the indexed properties, then none of the rest of the partNumber 
fields are checked for minlength.

I am using Struts and I was trying to output the error message beside 
the property using html:messages -- the result is that the error message 
is only generated for the first property that fails.

For what its worth, I did hack a fix -- I changed the
ValidatorResults validate(Map params, Map actions) method in the Field 
class [org.apache.commons.validator.Field].

Basically where it had (on line 724):
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                if (!good) {
                    return allResults;
                }
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I made it ...
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                if (!good && numberOfFieldsToValidate <= 1) {
                    return allResults;
                }
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This worked -- in other words I get all the messages generated for each 
field if the field is indexed.

Any opinions on ramifications of making this change or other possible 
solutions? I have not messed at all with the client-side javascript so I 
am not sure what the behavior is like there.

Bill Siggelkow
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