You can put the validation on Person's firstName() method.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Asleson, Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using Struts 2.0.11.
>
> I have an HTML table. Each row in the table represents a Person object.
> Each column in the table has an input box for properties about the
> person, such as firstName, lastName, etc.
>
> My Action has a Persons property that is a List<Person>. Each input box
> in the HTML table is indexed so as to populate the correct Person, for
> example:
>
> <input type="text" name="persons[0].firstName" value="Fred" />
>
> When the user posts the form, Struts 2 will populate the Person objects
> appropriately. So far so good. However, I want to apply validations to
> the input. For example, firstName is required. I want to use
> annotations for these validations as that is how I've done it elsewhere.
>
> I added this annotation to the method in the Action:
>
> @Validations(
> requiredStrings={
> @RequiredStringValidator( type=ValidatorType.SIMPLE, fieldName =
> "persons.firstName", message = "person.firstname.required" )
> }
> )
>
> Hoping that the firstName property of each Person within List<Person>
> would be checked to see if a value is provided. However, it doesn't
> seem to work; it always reports an error, even if all of the firstName
> input boxes are filled in.
>
> How can I validate the contents of objects within collections using
> annotations?
>
> Thank you!!!
>
> -Ryan
>
>
>
>
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