Re: Validate French Input Character using Struts Validator Framework

[Joe Germuska]

At 4:20 PM -0800 3/15/05, John Smith wrote:
 I have one question regarding to struts 
validation for French input characters.

I have some input fields in the form to accept 
the French character input, such as Street name,
person's name,

In struts's validation.xml file, I have defined the following rule:
<global>
<constant>
<constant-name>streetName</constant-name>
<!-- French version -->
|<constant-value>^\w+$</constant-value>
</constant>
</global>
<global>
<constant>
<constant-name>personName</constant-name>
<!-- French version -->
<constant-value>^\w+$</constant-value>
</constant>
</global>

<field property="streetName" depends="requiredif,mask">
<msg name="mask" key="form.addSite.caption.streetName.maskmsg" />
<arg0 key="form.addSite.caption.streetName" />
<var-name>mask</var-name>
<var-value>${streetName}</var-value>
</var>
</field>
.......
When I do the testing and enter the French 
characters for the streetName which contain 
French characters, such as, DŠSAUTELS, the 
struts complain about the invalid street name 
because of special French charactor Š,
in fact the street name: DŠSAUTELS is a real street name,

My question is how to define the validation rule 
to include that French character into the 
<constantvalue>^\w+$</constant-value>, according 
to regular expression, \w+ should include the 
French charactor, but it is not?

Do I miss something? How to tell struts 
validator to include the French locale for input 
validation purpose? Do I need to set locale for 
the formset tag inside the validation.xml file
It may be a real street name, but that doesn't 
mean that 'Š' is a legitimate word character. 
Even in English, some street names include spaces 
and other punctuation.  For example, there's a 
street here in Chicago called "Bryn Mawr".  It 
would fail your streetName test.  So would any 
French word beginning with [L']

You just need to write a more inclusive regular expression.
Joe
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