So you're proposing a way for a 'validwhen' rule to be able to invoke other validation rules (or control which of the validations specified by the 'depends' value is actually enforced)? I actually think that could be quite useful in some cases, but probably not very many. Can you think of any concrete examples of where you'd use something like that?

L.

Raghu Kanchustambham wrote:
That is correct .. but what would be more interesting and more useful is to
say "this should be in a date format when that text box is filled" or
something of that sort. What I think validation f/w supports is validwhen
"co-exists" with other validation rules... but they are kind of independent.
I want to couple them .. "enforce this rule only when that control is in
some state" kind of scenario with out using the regular expressions.

Dont you think that brings in quite a bit of value and ease to using the
validaror f/w?

~raghu


On 12/6/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, you can use multiple validations, (including validwhen) together,
but if you do they all have to pass. So you can't, for example, use
validwhen to say a field can be empty if some other field isn't set, but
must pass the 'date' validation otherwise. Not sure if that made sense
or not...

L.

Raghu Kanchustambham wrote:
Just wondering Laurie ... why cant I use other "validation rules" along
with
validwhen? I dont see any fundamental reason why I need to resort to
regular
expressions when I use validwhen tag. For example, it would be great if
I
could say .. validwhen (some test) .. use the date validation!

Is there something inherent in the way it is designed that this is not
possible?

Regards,
Raghu



On 12/6/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was going to say 'yes, you can do that,' but I don't think you can
express field length constraints with validwhen unfortunately :-(

L.

Deepa Khetan wrote:
Actually, i need to implement a if{} else{} condition in validation
framework..
if(field1=='usr1'){
 <field
       property="password"
       depends="minlength,maxlength">

       <var>
         <var-name>minlength</var-name>
         <var-value>8</var-value>
       </var>

       <var>
         <var-name>maxlength</var-name>
         <var-value>14</var-value>
       </var>
 </field>

}else{
<field
       property="password"
       depends="minlength,maxlength">

       <var>
         <var-name>minlength</var-name>
         <var-value>6</var-value>
       </var>

       <var>
         <var-name>maxlength</var-name>
         <var-value>11</var-value>
       </var>
 </field>
}


Something of the above sort... Can i do that with the frmework or do i
need
to write my own javascript??
Regards,
Deepa

On 12/5/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wendy Smoak wrote:
On 12/4/05, Deepa Khetan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
I need sme help with validator framework.. I have a LogonForm which
is
being
mapped with 2 different JSPs. Both the JSPs have the password
field,
but the
validation for the field are diferent(The minlength and maxlength
for
both
the pages is different). On the basis of the value of some other
field(say,
field1) i need to validate the pasword field. How can i do this??
You can use one of the form bean types with 'Action' in the name,
such
as ValidatorActionForm.

http://struts.apache.org/struts-doc-1.2.7/api/org/apache/struts/validator/ValidatorActionForm.html
These are mapped by path instead of form bean name, so you can have
a
different set of rules for each action mapping.

In validation.xml, you might have:
   <form name="/register">
which matches up with (from struts-config.xml)
   <action  path="/register" ... >

HTH,
--
Wendy
The other thing you might want to look at is the 'validwhen' rule
[1],
if you want to base your validation criteria on the value of field1
rather than on the action mapping path.

L.

[1]


http://struts.apache.org/struts-doc-1.2.7/userGuide/dev_validator.html#validwhen
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