I'm trying to validate two fields - area code and phone number (as nnn-nnnn
no areacode in that input).
Various samples and reading suggest that I should be able to create a mask
and apply it as below but my result is that the area code can't be empty but
it can contain letters, be longer than 3. It's ignoring my regular
expression mask.
Am I missing something simple in how to setup and use the validations.xml or
am I going about this in the wrong way?
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252'?>
<form-validation>
<global>
<constant>
<constant-name>phoneFormatMask</constant-name>
<constant-value>^[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$</constant-value>
</constant>
<constant>
<constant-name>areaCodeFormatMask</constant-name>
<constant-value>^[0-9]{3}$</constant-value>
</constant>
</global>
<formset>
<!-- Start of validation rules for each bean -->
<form name="contactBean">
<field property="firstName" depends="required" page="1">
<arg0 key="validation.error.firstname"/>
</field>
<field property="lastName" depends="required" page="1">
<arg0 key="validation.error.last"/>
</field>
<field property="email" depends="required, email" page="1">
<arg0 key="validation.error.email"/>
</field>
<field property="areaCode" depends="required, areaCodeMask" page="1">
<arg0 key="validation.error.areaCode"/>
<msg name="areaCodeMask" key="validation.error.areaCode.format"/>
<var>
<var-name>areaCodeMask</var-name>
<var-value>${areaCodeFormatMask}</var-value>
</var>
</field>
<field property="phoneNumber" depends="required, phoneMask" page="1">
<arg0 key="validation.error.phone"/>
<var>
<var-name>phoneMask</var-name>
<var-value>${phoneFormatMask}</var-value>
</var>
</field>
...
</form>
</formset>
</form-validation>
