Anywhere for now is fine with me.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Barrows [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:26 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: form validation (How to setup commons-logging to debug)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leung, Albert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:27 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: form validation (How to setup commons-logging to debug)
> 
> 
> Thanks. You wouldn't mind telling where the output goes? Is 
> it going to
> STDOUT?

Where do you want it?  Log4j allows you to configure that....


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:12 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: form validation (How to setup commons-logging to debug)
> 
> Jim said it well by writing:
> > com.yourcompany.youraplication.package1.yourclass
> > The FQN of the class you want to debug.
> 
> But, I'm feeling wordy today (day off) so I'll explain even 
> more.... (yap
> yap yap, yeah, I know ... I'll be quiet after today ends)
> 
> ............
> 
> By SOMECLASS or SOMEPACKAGE, I mean the names of your 
> packages and classes.
> If your class java file is named 
> com.leung.struts.ExampleAction.java, then
> the package is com.leung.struts.  The code to turn the 
> logging level to
> "debug" for the package would be:
> 
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.com.leung.struts=debug
> 
> The code to turn the logging level to "warn" only for the 
> ExampleAction java
> class mentioned above would be:
> 
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.com.leung.struts.Exam
> pleAction=warn
> 
> Next, you might ask, why would I do different levels for the 
> package and a
> class within that package?  Well, some people want logging off in the
> package but on for a particular class.  Others might want the 
> reverse: A
> package might have 10 classes in it, you could want logging 
> turned on for 8
> of them, so you turn logging on for the package but off for 
> the two classes
> you aren't interested in seeing display logging information.
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> P.S. I guess it's now "Hey Jim, [STRUTS] Tag, you're it!"
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leung, Albert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:03 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: form validation (How to setup commons-logging to debug)
> 
> 
> I'm sorry. I've check the documentation at the Jakarta site 
> and I still
> don't know what you mean by
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.SOMECLASS=LEVEL
> 
> What is the SOMECLASS?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:23 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: form validation (How to setup commons-logging to debug)
> 
> I haven't done this (manually - I've been copying my blank setup) in a
> while, but the basic steps are:
> 
> a) Make sure you have a commons-logging jar in WEB-INF/lib
> I use commons-logging-1.0.3.jar (Struts v1.1) [Note: there is 
> now a 1.0.4
> version at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons
> 
> b) Create the file for commons-logging.properties file in 
> WEB-INF/classes
> and specify a logging service.  I use the included SimpleLog 
> though some
> people prefer log4j.  My commons-logging.properties file is:
> 
> org.apache.commons.logging.Log=org.apache.commons.logging.impl
> .SimpleLog
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.defaultlog=debug
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.showlogname=true
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.showdatetime=true
> 
> c) Create the properties file for the service you are using.  I use
> SimpleLog so I setup the file 
> WEB-INF/classes/simplelog.properties with
> contents following one of these two patterns:
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.SOMECLASS=LEVEL
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.SOMEPACKAGE=LEVEL
> 
> The available levels are described at:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging/commons-logging-1.0.
> 3/docs/api/org
> /apache/commons/logging/Log.html,
> 
> trace (the least serious)
> debug
> info
> warn
> error
> fatal (the most serious)
> none (I use this to turn of logging for a class or package)
> 
> If you want all packages under the package com.leung.struts 
> to log debug
> information, you can include the line:
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.com.leung.struts=debug
> 
> If you want only the package 
> com.leung.struts.actions.ExampleAction to trace
> every possible action, you could include the line:
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.com.leung.actions.Exa
> mpleAction=tra
> ce
> 
> If you want all validation information messages, you could 
> include the line:
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.struts.val
> idator=info
> 
> d) Add the appropriate log lines in your Action subclass to there is
> something to read in the logs.
> 
> d.1) The class must define a logging facility such as:
> private Log log = LogFactory.getLog(this.getClass());
> 
> d.2) The class must use log.debug(), log.trace(), log.warn(), 
> log.error(),
> etc. as appropriate.  Some people prefer to use the 
> log.isDebug() method
> before deciding to invoke log.debug(String 
> someTextStatusMessage) or the
> appropriate log.isWHATEVER() for the other logging levels.
> 
> REMEMBER! If you don't put debug statements in the code, the logging
> facility won't have anything to show you.
> 
> Also, I believe that if you have a log level of "info" all 
> less serious
> levels, in this case "debug" should show up in your log file.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leung, Albert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:41 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: form validation
> 
> 
> David,
> 
> I've checked everything thoroughly. I've eliminated spelling 
> errors and
> missing references. It would be a great help if you could 
> show me how to
> turn on debugging and commons logging.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Albert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:35 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: form validation
> 
> Albert,
> 
> When all that is correctly setup, I've only ever had problems with a
> misspelled forward inside my action or missing JSP/html/other 
> pages. I've
> had a blank page show up when the forward was "intup" and I 
> meant "input".
> Have you checked the code in your action?
> 
> Have you turned on the logging features or commons logging for further
> details even up to the debug level?
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leung, Albert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:26 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: form validation
> 
> 
> It definitely exists. The action definition, the input forms, 
> form beans
> definition, validation entries are exactly the same in both projects.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Siggelkow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: form validation
> 
> Leung, Albert wrote:
> 
> > For some reason I can't get form validation to work for a particular
> > project. If I take the same ValidatorForm, use the same 
> validation entry
> in
> > formset, and update the struts-config to use the same form 
> bean and action
> > it works fine in another project. The project that has 
> problems just gives
> > me a blank page whenever it finds something wrong. There is 
> no stack trace
> > or log that can tell me what could be wrong.
> >
> >
> >
> > Please help!
> >
> >
> >
> > Albert
> >
> >
> This can happen if the page specified by the "input" 
> attribute does not
> exist.
> 
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