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HOW TO: WEBAPP

validation.xml (struts 1)

In this file, we declare the validation of the fields in our forms. Remember that the html tag "form" and the "form-bean" defined in struts-config.xml are strictly connected. Let's see an example of form validation:

<form name="home_form"> ... </form>

In the previous code, we have declared a form to validate. The attribute "name" is the name of a form-bean as declared in struts-config.xml.

Let's add a field to validate:

<form name="home_form"> <field property="test" depends="required,maxlength"> <arg position="0" key="test_msg" bundle="generic"/> <arg position="1" key="${var:maxlength}" resource="false"/> <var> <var-name>maxlength</var-name> <var-value>2</var-value> </var> </field> </form>

The value of attribute "property" is the name of the field, as declared in the relative ActionForm class.
The value of attribute "depends" is the type of validation to do. In our example a value is necessary ("required") and cannot be of an arbitrary length ("maxlength").

If a validation error occurs, then the name of the field is obtained from resource "generic", in particular by value of the key "test_msg".
If the maxlength validation fails, the max number of chars using the value of tag "var-value" is shown.

To see more clearly what was described above, try to send a blank value or a value bigger than 99 and see what happens.