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html:errors displays before submit is hit.

 
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Hi,

newbie question.

Well my problem is that i have a form in file "userRegistration.do" where of course I what to send back the html:errors if any that will happen when submitting it.
It works great but my problem is that userRegistration.do show form errors before the form even being submitted.

My struts-config.xml




Ask if there is any questions about my question

thank you /Robert
 
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userRegistration.do show form errors before the form even being submitted.



Could you explain what you mean by this?
From which page do you see the errors?
What are the errors?
Which class creates the errors?
 
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i got a form in userRegistration.do.

Like this:


When i first surf in to that page the html:errors displays and i only want them to show when i have submitted the form and the validate() method should be called in the actionForm.

example errors:
# The first name was blank
# The last name was blank

UserRegistrationForm(validates) creates the errors.

I hope you now see the picture
Else ask again.
 
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It seems there is an actionmapping associated with the form and it is being hit as you "surf to the page". Possibly a Setup Action?

Anyway, if there is some such action you should set validate=false in its mapping.
 
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Sorry Marc Peabody, but I really don't understand what you mean.

Only mapping to userRegistration is the one i posted in the first post above.

If i set validate="false" it that one it will never be validated even when i press submit if i understand how things work in struts.

really appreciate your help.

/Robert
 
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Ok, let's back up.

How do you get to this page?
Is it a link to the jsp?
Is it a link to an Action that forwards to the jsp?
 
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hehe great

I just type in the browser: http://localhost:8080/strutsProj/userRegistration.do

and as you can see in my first post it loads the jsp page called:
userRegistration.jsp

in that jsp page i have the form for registration.

Next you want to know?
 
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I have been thinking.. Should i put up one more action mapping to the same jsp file and with that one just forward.
And keep the other one for the form tag.

I have read that i should never point direct to a jsp page so thats why i think about this. If i just type in the jsp page directly the html:errors will work as they are supposed to.

 
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Ah... there lies the problem.

You are entering the submitting action of the jsp.
The ActionMapping for userRegistration.do kicks in and calls the validate method of userRegistrationForm. Validation obviously does not pass because your request does not include any parameters. Since validation fails it passes the request along to the "input" of the ActionMapping, which is your userRegistration.jsp

The Address bar of your browser in Struts is a bit of a paradigm shift. We are used to it displaying the next page we want to see. In Struts, we'll typically see what we last asked the server to "do"... which usually is something associated with the previous page.

If you do not want to link directly to the jsp as you mentioned, it might be worth creating an ActionMapping called "gotoUserRegistration.do" or something to that nature. You will probably want to use a SuccessAction.
Something like:

SuccessAction you can get from Scaffold or make your own. It just returns mapping.findForward("success")

Hope this is helpful.
 
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ah thanks, you explained what I tried to explain for you =)

I did as you described with a successAction. I wonder is this the best way to go or should i think over something?

I got a second question to.
info:I use struts 1.1
well i wonder how i can use xhtml strict.
In regular html i have this:

I have tried two ways in Struts style.

If i browse the page and take view source the start tag <html> doesnt even show.
If i use following:

I get this output in view source:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"></html>

Why is there </html> at the end of the line?
 
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I would use the combination of those first two codeblocks there.

The main goal of <html:xhtml/> is really to force the other html:XXX tags in Struts to render as xhtml.
 
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aha i see. Thank you.
 
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