validation

[MInu]

Hi..
I want to validate a text field.The condition is the value entered should be in small letters....no digits or special characters permitted.

My validation.xml is


<field property="userId" depends="required">
<arg0 key="errors.userform.userid"/>
<var>
<var-name>mask</var-name>
<var-value>[a-z]</var-value>
</var>
</field>

It does'nt work.

Thanks

[Ray Stojonic]

Including a mask within the field tag isn't enough, you'll also need to specify that you want the mask procedure to be run by adding 'mask' to the depends attribute.
Struts Validator Reference (makes a great bookmark)

[Dhan Raj]

Hi

Make sure the mask to start with "^" sign and end with "$" sign. Its new requirement since Struts 1.1. Also, "*" before "$" sign (at the end) tells that the lower case letters can occur any number of times

<field property="fieldName" depends="required, mask">
<msg name="mask" key="formName.fieldName.display_msg"/>
<arg0 key="formName.fieldName.display_name"/>
<var>
<var-name>mask</var-name>
<var-value>^[a-z]*$</var-value>
</var>
</field>

thx
Dhan Raj