Hello Josh,
I have a thought about your problem with the "exception" thrown by Tomcat at the command line. The first is that it might not be an exception it might just be the some kind of log. Also as a side note you make sure that the hidden field that is collecting the whole date is doing what it should be doing. I have come accross a problem where I was doing something simplier and I have trusting that the value that the drop-down menu was sending was correct.
As for making custom validator in my view that is the way to go for a couple of reasons. First reason is clarity it is a lot more clear to have a custom validator that to have an hidden field. Also the custom validator should be pretty easy to do because you could use the original date validator as a tool.
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----Original Message Follows---- From: j o s h ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: j o s h ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: Trying to understand Validate Date Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:01:39 +0800
Hi
I am new to struts and got 2 questions
1/ I am trying to understand if the behaviour I am getting from a date validation is right...when I put in an invalid date on my DynaValidatorForm, say 31/11/2000, I get an error (correctly) on the input field. Validation is working as it should. But I get an exception on the Tomcat console...
input date 31/11/2001 26-Jan-2005 17:43:44 org.apache.commons.validator.GenericTypeValidator formatDate WARNING: 31/11/2001 java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "31/11/2001" .....
Is this a normal behaviour? shouldn't this exception be caught within validateDate?
2/ I am using a subclass of DynaValidatorForm. And have 3 drop down boxes for Day, Month and Year. In order to make use of the date validator in struts, I have a additional hidden field that concatenates these 3 fields into one in the validate() method. Should this be defined as a pluggable validator instead?
Thanks for any advise.
Josh
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