How to reuse action class with xml validation

[venkatesh loganathan]

Hi all
Iam using validation.xml for validation.The problem here is if i have a Action class and its corresponding form (which has an entry in validation.xml)

Eg:
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/*@struts.action path = "/editCustomer" name = "editForm" scope = "request" validate="true" input="ErrorEdit"
*
* * @struts.action-forward name = "ErrorEdit" path="editShopperTile"
*
*/
public class EditShopperAction extends AbstractAction{
public void execute(StrutsActionContext actionContext) {
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Form Bean

/**
* @struts.form name="editForm"
*/
public class EditForm extends ValidatorForm {
private String etelephone;
/**
* @struts.validator type="required" msgkey="CustomerForm.telephone"
**/
public void setEtelephone(String etelephone) {
this.etelephone = etelephone;
}
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Problem
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When my action class gets loaded it checks fro validate =true and validation is performed before entering values.Here for eg telephone ..while the form is loaded telephone =null and hence it showing me the validation failure result.

How to skip validation in this case.

Im using two action class for this.One for displaying the filling form and other to check validation.

Can anyone give me a solution to this

Thanks in advance

Venkatesh Loganathan

[sreenath reddy]

Hi

see u can do this ..........in one action say validate=true and in another action say validate=false .so in the later case the validation rules will be skipped even though u r using the same form bean in both the cases

[charu latha]

wont work. i have tried it out.

[charu latha]

I have the exact same problem. I have a form bean but i am calling two action classes basically because i have 4 drop downs and for each i have to go to the database an dcome back. When the request happens all what i typed in my form is gone and the drop downs dont retain their values. Any idea on how this can be done?

[Marc Peabody]

What sreenath said does work. Your situation might be a tad different, charu. It might be worth it to start a new thread and explain your problem in a little more detail.

[sreenath reddy]

HI vankatesh

Sorry to tell u that ....strust 1.1 provides a better way for what u asked ......even though what i said will also work but will tell u ....there is validatoractionform in struts...........for this actually the rules from xml will be picked based on the path attribute from the struts-config.xml rather than the form name attribute..............this is teh purpose of introducing this where two actions can share the same form bean with different sets of validatiions


hope this will help u in better way than what i said earluer