Well, it's somewhere between what Niall described and what Nathan is looking for. FormDef's primary purpose (and the biggest itch I wanted it to scratch) was defining form beans based on existing POJOs. Basically, I got tired creating string-ified versions of my business objects. The form beans it defines can be used like any other form beans, except you don't have to specify all your fields if your POJO already defines them.
Once I was defining action forms from POJOs, the next step was conversion. After that, I thought it'd make sense maintaining the form definition, conversion, and validation all in one file, so I added code to support that. Hubert On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:13:45 -0000, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't - Hubert Rabago has an extension (called FormDef) which combines the > form definition part of Struts config with the validation config - it also > does some neat stuff on conversion. You might like to have a look at that: > > https://formdef.dev.java.net/ > > I don't think its the nirvana you're looking for but maybe its a step in the > right direction. > > Niall > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nathan Coast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 1:06 AM > Subject: Re: multiple message resources and validator > > > great stuff, thanks Niall, > > > > seeing as you're obviously fairly involved with struts and validator, > > you might be able to answer this for me..... > > > > I've been thinking that much of the struts related artifacts could be > > generated from a number of models. I have dug around a fair bit but not > > found anything that looks like what I'm thinking. > > > > a data model - describes your entities (or whatever you choose to call > > them), describes their properties and validations required for each > > property. The data model could also contain internationalised labels > > for entities and properties. > > > > a form model - describes the fields of your forms with individual fields > > referencing entity properties in your data model, possibly describing > > whether that field needs validating, possibly overriding the validation > > for an individual field. > > > > ActionForms, validations.xml, jsps and message resources could in theory > > be generated by combining these two models. > > > > the next step would be to generate your db schema, entity beans, jdo, > > hibernate, ibatis, whatever..... from your data model and then take the > > rest of the week off. > > > > My question is.... know of anyone who's working on something like this? > > > > cheers > > Nathan > > > > Niall Pemberton wrote: > > > Its on my todo list, but unfortunately I haven't had much time recently. > > > > > > The first part of resolving this was some minor changes to Commons > > > Validator - those I've done and released in Validator version 1.1.4 just > > > before Christmas. The second part is to then modify Struts - that bit > I'm > > > hoping to get round to in the next week or two. > > > > > > Niall > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Nathan Coast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org> > > > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 9:00 AM > > > Subject: multiple message resources and validator > > > > > > > > > > > >>Hi, > > >> > > >>following on from my previous email about multiple message resource > > >>files, it looks like the validator doesn't support multiple message > > >>resource bundles. > > >> > > >>I found this workaround > > >>http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/Dynaform/index-7.html > > >> > > >>An alternative is to assemble a single ApplicationResources.properties > > >>from the individual message files. > > >> > > >>Is there any plan to modify the validator to support multiple message > > >>resources? > > >> > > >>cheers > > >>Nathan > > >>-- > > >>Nathan Coast > > >>Managing Director > > >>Codeczar Ltd > > >>mob : (852) 9049 5581 > > >>tel : (852) 2834 8733 > > >>fax : (852) 2834 8755 > > >>web : http://www.codeczar.com > > >> > > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Nathan Coast > > Managing Director > > Codeczar Ltd > > mob : (852) 9049 5581 > > tel : (852) 2834 8733 > > fax : (852) 2834 8755 > > web : http://www.codeczar.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
