If you want to call the Validator then the easiest way to find out how is to look at the "validate" method of one of the "validator" flavour ActionForms - for example ValidatorForm.
As to validating an excel spreadsheet - typically validator is called with a "bean" (or form) full of data. If you are extracting/converting your excel data into some kind of bean - then looking at what the "validator" flavour ActionForms do should help you out. If however you have it in some java representation of a excel, then I'm not sure what the easiest solution would be (don't even know what software you're using to read excel) - without knowing the format/structure. We have a small excel framework built on top of Jakarta POI and found it easier to just build a small set of rules into that framework, rather than trying to use something like validator. Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deepa Khetan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 11:46 AM No body has any answers or work around for this?? :( ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Deepa Khetan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mar 2, 2006 9:01 PM Subject: validator framework in my Action class To: Struts Users Mailing List <user@struts.apache.org> Hi Is there a way in which i can use the validator framework in my Action class? Actually, i have a functionality in which the user can upload an Excel sheet with a number of records. Now, this excel sheet needs to be in a format and every column needs to be validated for minlength,maxlength, mask etc. So, validator framework is good for me. but for validation pupose i will need to open the Excel sheet and read each value. Cant figur out what to do. Please help. Deepa --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
