Struts Password and Email server-side validation

[Nina Anderson]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to switch from client-side to Server-side validation. However, I don't know how I can validate "password" and "email" fields on the server-side.

Please help me on how I can change the following to Server-side:

    
 
   <field property="userName" depends="required,email">
   <msg name="email" key="errors.invalid" />
   <arg position="0" key="prompt.email" />
   </field>
   <field property="passWord" depends="required, minlength, maxlength,mask">
   <arg position="0" key="prompt.password" />
   <arg position="1" key="${var:minlength}" name="minlength" resource="false" />
   <arg position="2" key="${var:maxlength}" name="maxlength" resource="false" />   
   <arg position="3" key="${var:mask}" name="mask" resource="false" />       
   <var>
   <var-name>minlength</var-name>
   <var-value>8</var-value>
   </var>
   <var>
   <var-name>maxlength</var-name>
   <var-value>10</var-value>
   </var>
        <var>
            <var-name>mask</var-name>
            <var-value>(?!^[0-9]*$)(?!^[a-zA-Z]*$)^([a-zA-Z0-9]{8,10})$</var-value>
        </var>
   </field>
 

[Gary Dhaliwal]

You can leave your validation.xml as is (Make sure you have a <form name=?> tag around your fields).

Now instead of subclassing your form beans from ActionForm subclass from ValidatorForm

ie. Change public class CompanySearchForm extends ActionForm{
to public class CompanySearchForm extends ValidatorForm{

And lastly make sure your action tag in struts-config.xml has validate="true"

i.e. <action path="/createJob" validate="true" ...
[ October 19, 2008: Message edited by: G Dddd ]

[Bear Bibeault]

"G Dddd", please check your private messages for an important administrative matter.

[Gary Dhaliwal]

ok.

[Nina Anderson]

Thanks for your response. This was helpful.