Hi Anjib,
have You set validate=true in struts-config.xml for this action like below?

< action path="/path/to/action" 
type="com.UploadAction"
name="myTestForm"
input="tile.definition"
validate="true" >

Best greetings,
Paweł Wielgus.


2010/11/18 Anjib Mulepati <anji...@hotmail.com>:
> Hi everyone
>
> I got confuse with the call of ActionForm in Struts 1.3.8
>
> If I have Form as follow with validate() method
>
> public class MyTestForm extends org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm {
>
>     String myTestString;
>
>    public MyTestForm() {
>        super();
>    }
>
>    public String getMyTestString() {
>        return myTestString;
>    }
>
>    public void setMyTestString(String newString) {
>        this.myTestString =newString;
>    }
>
>   �...@override
>    public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest
> request) {
>        ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
>        //do validation of myTestString
>        return errors;
>   }
>
> }
>
> And I have Action class as
>
> public class UploadAction extends org.apache.struts.action.Action {
>
>    public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
>            HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
>            throws IOException, ServletException {
>                        MyTestForm myForm = (MyTestForm) form;
>                        //Other operation
>   }
> }
>
> Now when I debug with debugging point at both validate() and execute()
> method's first statement what i found is the control never goes to
> validate() method. I was guessing control should go to validate method first
> then only to execute method. In other word my input was never validated.
>
> What I am doing wrong? Can anyone help me out in this?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Anjib
>
>
>
>
>

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