Thanks for your help. The explanation is very clear.
--- Matt Bathje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've never used the <msg> attribute myself, but I
> think when you do, you
> need to specify the key, and a name attribute for
> which validation the
> message applies to. So in your case it would be:
>
> <msg name="required" key="request.page" />
>
> You may also need to specify a bundle and resource
> attribute, but I
> don't think so in your case.
>
> The error message you are seeing (null is required)
> is from the default
> error message. When you use the default error
> message, you need to
> specify replacement values for the error message
> template. If you look
> in your application.properties, you should have a
> bunch of errors.XXXX
> lines, for each standard validator. For example, you
> should have a line
> like:
>
> errors.required={0} is required.
>
> for the required validator. The {0} is what needs a
> replacement. To
> define it in your validator, you use:
>
> <arg0 key="request.page" />
> OR (for struts 1.2.x)
> <arg key="requst.page" position="0" />
>
> In these cases though, request.page should be
> defined in
> application.properties as:
>
> request.page=Page
>
> then, when the error prints, it will print as "Page
> is required."
>
> For me at least, this is a lot more handy than using
> <msg>, because you
> can use the same label to print out the prompt and
> the error message.
>
> Hopefully I explained this well enough...
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> Caroline Jen wrote:
>
> > I use the validation.xml to validate the
> properties in
> > my form bean. The validation works; but, the
> error
> > messages do not work as I expected.
> >
> > While I have customized error messages prepared,
> the
> > error message displayed in the browser window for
> my
> > intentional violation are like:
> > . null is required
> > . null is required
> >
> > I also wonder how to show error messages if there
> are
> > more than one validation check for a certain
> property.
> > For example, depends="required,mask".
> >
> > For example, in my validation.xml, I have:
> > [CODE]
> > <form name="editTitleForm">
> > <field
> > property="document"
> > depends="required">
> > <msg key="request.page"/>
> > </field>
> > <field
> > property="title"
> > depends="required">
> > <msg key="insert.title"/>
> > </field>
> > </form>
> > [/CODE]
> >
> > In my web.xml, I have:
> > [CODE]
> > <init-param>
> > <param-name>application</param-name>
> >
> <param-value>resources.application</param-value>
> > </init-param>
> > [/CODE]
> >
> > and the application.properties file is in the
> >
>
C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27\webapps\AppName\WEB-INF\classes\resources
> > directory.
> >
> > In the application.properties, I have:
> >
> > [CODE]
> > request.page=The requested page is not provided.
> > insert.tile=The title of the requested page must
> not
> > be left blank.
> > [/CODE]
> >
> >
> >
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