[validator]

[Gagan Suri]

Hi,

I want to use *Commons
Validator<http://commons.apache.org/validator/index.html>
*in my web project. I have a servlet based web-app and I need to add
validations on the beans populated from request.

I created a validation.xml like this



<form-validation>

   <global>

       <validator name=*"required"*

          classname=*"com.pbbi.faraday.common.validator.Validator"*

          method=*"validateRequired"*

          methodParams=*"java.lang.Object,
org.apache.commons.validator.Field"*/>

    </global>

    <formset>

       <form name=*"unitLocationBean"*>

          <field property=*"unitId"* depends=*"required"*>

             <arg0 key=*"unitlocation.unitid"*/>

          </field>

       </form>

    </formset>

</form-validation>



And my validator code is like this



import org.apache.commons.validator.Field;

import org.apache.commons.validator.GenericValidator;

import org.apache.commons.validator.util.ValidatorUtils;



public class Validator {

       public static boolean validateRequired(Object bean, Field field) {

           String value = ValidatorUtils.getValueAsString(bean,
field.getProperty());

           return !GenericValidator.isBlankOrNull(value);

       }

}



And my test class to test the validations is like this



import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import java.io.InputStream;



import org.apache.commons.validator.Validator;

import org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorResources;

import org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorResult;

import org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorResults;



import com.pbbi.faraday.beans.UnitLocationBean;



public class Test {

public void testname() throws Exception {



       InputStream in = new FileInputStream(new
File("D:\\workspace\\faradaytc\\src\\main\\resources\\validator-rules.xml"));

//     InputStream in1 = new FileInputStream(new
File("D:\\workspace\\faradaytc\\src\\main\\resources\\MessageResources.properties"));

       InputStream[] ins=new InputStream[2];

       ins[0]=in;

//     ins[1]=in1;

       // Create an instance of ValidatorResources to

       // initialize from an xml file.



       ValidatorResources resources = new ValidatorResources(in);



       // Create bean to run test on.

       UnitLocationBean unitLocationBean=new UnitLocationBean();

       unitLocationBean.setUnitId("12121");





       // Construct validator based on the loaded resources

       // and the form key

       Validator validator = new Validator(resources, "unitLocationBean");

       // add the name bean to the validator as a resource

       // for the validations to be performed on.

       validator.setParameter(Validator.BEAN_PARAM, unitLocationBean);





       // throws ValidatorException,

       // but aren't catching for example

       ValidatorResults results2=validator.validate();

       ValidatorResult result=results2.getValidatorResult("unitId");

//     result.getResult(validatorName)

       System.out.println("results2 :
"+results2.getValidatorResult("unitId"));

       System.out.println("results2 :
"+results2.getValidatorResult("unitId"));

       if (results2.getValidatorResult("unitId") == null) {

              System.out.println("No error :
"+results2.getValidatorResult("unitId"));

       } else {

           // number of errors for first name

              //int errors = ((Integer)results.get("firstName")).intValue();

              System.out.println(results2.getValidatorResult("unitId"));

              System.out.println(" errors
:"+results2.getValidatorResult("unitId"));

       }

}





public static void main(String[] args) {

       try {

              new Test().testname();

       } catch (Exception e) {

              // TODO Auto-generated catch block

              e.printStackTrace();

       }

}

}



I am not able to understand where to put the message resource property file
to show up the messages.

I want server side validations only in this case.



Regards,


Gagan Suri,

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