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Author : Amit
Date (Year/Month/Date): 2009-04-25 Struts2 Validation Example
Let us take the existing Example of using Struts2 Frameworks and build
code for some basic validation arround the text field.

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Software environment I have used for this example, so far as follows: 1. JDK 5.0 2. Tomcat 5.5.x 3. Eclipse 3.2 4. Apache Struts 2.1.6 (example Web application should have following JAR files in WEB-INF\lib folder) 4.1. commons-fileupload-1.2.1.jar 4.2. commons-io-1.3.2.jar 4.3. commons-logging-1.1.jar 4.4. freemarker-2.3.13.jar 4.5. ognl-2.6.11.jar 4.6. struts2-core-2.1.6.jar 4.7. xwork-2.1.2.jar (Note: This example is not tested with any other version of Apache Struts ) This example is having a screen that has text fields, checkboxes and radio buttons to accept user inputs. Let us put some "required" constraint arround these text fields and don't allow to proceed to the preview screen, before user enters some values into these text fields. In order to apply validation for the mandatory text fields, we need to make changes in JSP file,struts.xml file, Action class and provide a Validation XML file with name as Action_Class_Name-validation.xml, so in this example if Action class is ExamplePOJOAction , then this Action class should extend ActionSupport from Struts2 and the validation XML file should be named as "ExamplePOJOAction-validation.xml" file. So let us take each of these parts of this example and discuss: index.jsp
<%@ taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="struts2"%>
<html>
<body>
<struts2:actionerror/>
<struts2:bean id="so" name="sample.SubscriptionOptions"/>
<struts2:bean id="consentOption" name="sample.ConsentOptions"/>
<struts2:form method="post" action="example" namespace="/sample">
<table>
<tr><td><struts2:textfield key="myBean.userName" label="Name "/></td></tr>
<tr><struts2:textfield key="myBean.roll" label="Roll "/></td></tr>
<tr><td><struts2:textfield key="myBean.section" label="Section "/></td></tr>
<tr><struts2:textfield key="myBean.stdClass" label="Std/Class "/></td></tr>
<struts2:checkbox key="myBean.newsLetterOption" label="Subscription for News Letters "/>
<struts2:checkboxlist label="Other Subscription Options " key="myBean.subscriptionOptions" list="so" labelSeparator=":"/>
<struts2:radio label="You opinion " key="myBean.consentOptions" list="consentOption" labelSeparator=":"/>
<tr><td colspan="2"><struts2:submit value="Register"/></td></tr>
</table>
</struts2:form>
</body>
</html>
Text with bold red color, shows that, any validation error will be shown on this screen at the place of this actionerror TAG. struts.xml file will have a result name as "input", which is implicitly used by validation for taking navigation to this result path.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
    "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
    "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">
<struts>
    <package name="hibernate-example" namespace="/sample"
                 extends="struts-default">
        <action name="example" class="sample.ExamplePOJOAction" 
	                       method="preview">
                <result name="preview">/preview.jsp</result>
                <result name="input">/index.jsp</result>
        </action>
    </package>
</struts>
As mentioned earlier, the validation specific XML file, that holds information about the field name and the type of declarative constraint to be imposed on the field, this validation XML file will have to be named as "ExamplePOJOAction-validation.xml" (Bold being Action class name) and this validation XML file should be placed in the same folder where the Action class is put/present.
<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC
  	"-//OpenSymphony Group//XWork Validator 1.0.3//EN"
  	"http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/xwork-validator-1.0.3.dtd">
<validators>
  <field name="myBean.userName">
    <field-validator type="requiredstring">
      <message>Please enter User name</message>      
    </field-validator>
  </field>
</validators>
So only userName field from MyBean class will be validated for requiredstring constraint/validation. Action class can be same as that of earlier example and as shown below: ExamplePOJOAction.java
package sample;
/**
 * This code is provided "AS IS" without any guaranty
 * Use of this code only for educational and learning
 * purpose only.
 * Author: Amit
 * Contact : usingframeworks@gmail.com
 * Date: 16-Feb-2009
 */
import java.util.Map;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;

/**
 * This is the Action POJO class
 */
public class ExamplePOJOAction extends ActionSupport {
    private MyBean myBean;
    public String preview() throws Exception {
        return "preview";
    }
    public void setMyBean(MyBean argMyBean) {
        myBean = argMyBean;
    }
    public MyBean getMyBean() {
        return myBean;
    }
}
All remaining supporting files can be obtained from my earlier example from the link below: Struts 2 Example OR as follows: Now Mybean is the class that is holding all the variables those will be accepting values from Struts2 Tags from index.jsp file. Now I am going to add another variable "consentOptions" of type java.util.List and corresponding setter and getter methods. MyBean.java
package sample;
/**
 * This code is provided "AS IS" without any guaranty
 * Use of this code only for educational and learning
 * purpose only.
 * Author: Amit
 * Contact : usingframeworks@gmail.com
 * Date: 16-Feb-2009
 */
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class MyBean
{
	private String userName;
	private String roll;
	private String section;
	private String stdClass;
	private List subscriptionOptions;
	private List consentOptions;
	private boolean newsLetterOption;

	public String getUserName() {
		return this.userName;
	}
	public void setUserName(String argUserName) {
		userName = argUserName;
	}
	public String getRoll() {
		return this.roll;
	}
	public void setRoll(String argRoll) {
		roll = argRoll;
	}
	public String getSection() {
		return this.section;
	}
	public void setSection(String argSection) {
		section = argSection;
	}
	public String getStdClass() {
		return this.stdClass;
	}
	public void setStdClass(String argStdClass) {
		stdClass = argStdClass;
	}
	public List getSubscriptionOptions() {
	    return subscriptionOptions;
	}
	public void setSubscriptionOptions(List argSubscriptionOptions) {
		subscriptionOptions = argSubscriptionOptions;
	}
	public void setNewsLetterOption(boolean argNewsLetterOption) {
		newsLetterOption = argNewsLetterOption;
	}
	public boolean getNewsLetterOption() {
		return newsLetterOption;
	}
	public void setConsentOptions(List argConsentOptions) {
        consentOptions = argConsentOptions;
	}
	public List getConsentOptions() {
		return consentOptions;
	}
}
And another class file that holds all the hard coded subscription options for this example, those are to be shown in checkbox list as labels. SubscriptionOptions.java
package sample;
/**
 * This code is provided "AS IS" without any guaranty
 * Use of this code only for educational and learning
 * purpose only.
 * Author: Amit
 * Contact : usingframeworks@gmail.com
 * Date: 16-Feb-2009
 */
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class SubscriptionOptions extends ArrayList
{
        public SubscriptionOptions() {
          super();
          add("Technical Support");
          add("Business Support");
          add("HR Support");
          add("Help Desk Emails");
        }
}
Just like Subscription options, I have introduced another class "ConsentOptions.java". This class file holds all the labels for the radio buttons, like for this example, these are "Agree" and "Disagree" . ConsentOptions.java
package sample;
/**
 * This code is provided "AS IS" without any guaranty
 * Use of this code only for educational and learning
 * purpose only.
 * Author: Amit
 * Contact : usingframeworks@gmail.com
 * Date: 16-Feb-2009
 */
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class ConsentOptions extends ArrayList
{
	public ConsentOptions() {
          super();
          add("Agree");
          add("Disagree");
	}
}
Once all the fields in MyBean are populated with values from index.jsp screen, then these values are to be shown in preview page, so comes the preview.jsp file. There is a slight change in this preview.jsp file, to include Radio button selectioned value, either Agree or Disagree. preview.jsp
<%@ taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="struts2"%>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h2>Preview Page</h2>
<table>
<tr><td>
<b><font color="green">Name : </font>
</td><td><struts2:property value="myBean.userName"/></td></tr>
<tr><td><b><font color="green">Roll No. : </font></b></td><td>
<struts2:property value="myBean.roll"/></td></tr>
<tr><td><b><font color="green">Section : </font>
</b></td><td><struts2:property value="myBean.section"/></td></tr>
<tr><td><b><font color="green">Std/Class : </font>
</b></td><td><struts2:property value="myBean.stdClass"/></td></tr>
<tr><td>
<b><font color="green">New Letter Subscription :</font></b></td><td>
<struts2:if test="myBean.newsLetterOption">
Yes
</struts2:if>
<struts2:else>
No
</struts2:else>
</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><b><font color="green">Other Subscription Options:</font></b></td><td>
<struts2:iterator id="a" value="myBean.subscriptionOptions">
<struts2:property value="a"/>
<br>
</struts2:iterator>
</td></tr>

<tr><td valign="top"><b><font color="green">User consent Option selected :</font></b></td><td>
<struts2:iterator id="b" value="myBean.consentOptions">
<struts2:property value="b"/>
<br>
</struts2:iterator>
</td></tr>

</table>
</body>
</html>
If you are interested in setting up this example in tomcat web server, following are some other files details such as web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
    <display-name>Struts Blank</display-name>
  <filter>
  <filter-name>sample-filter</filter-name>
  <filter-class> 
    org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter
  </filter-class>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>sample-filter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>
</web-app>
After running this example on Browser following are the screens, one before validation/error and the other after validation: I shall be writing many more examples on using Validation with Struts2 Framework and for various types of Struts2 Tags like Date type field, E-mail type field, Numeric only fields and many more.
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Commented By ->
Guddu
Can you please show any example on using Client or Browser
side validation using JavaScript?
And any example code on using AJAX and Struts 2?

Commented By ->
Guddu
Is there any ways to change the way error message is shown?
Like any other CSS attribute to be included to show this erro message.

Any example code would definitely will help..
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