Hi Laurie, Thanks for the quick reply. I want to reset the form fields after hitting a reset button. When I thought of going about it through the Action class way and tried to clear out my form fields , strangely i noticed that the Action class's execute method is never called if there are still certain validations failing. I read in struts flow explanation that Action class is only called if the validations are passed through. I dont know what other way to adopt. Any suggestions? Thanks Ashima Beri
Laurie Harper wrote: > > Ashima Beri wrote: >> Hi, >> I am trying to reset a validator form after the form is submitted and a >> few >> of the validations have failed. >> Reset button used in the form clears out fields changed only since the >> time >> the form is loaded. That is it does just the client side reset. One way >> that >> i figured out was to submit the form back to the jsp so that the jsp >> reloads >> with all the form field reinitialized. >> Is there some other method of clearing out the form fields after it has >> failed the validations defined in validation.xml? >> Thanks in advance for all the valuable suggestions! >> Ashima Beri > > Do you want to clear out the form fields before redisplaying the form > after a validation error, or just allow the user to request a reset > after the form is redisplayed? > > Usually you would want to retain the data the user input after a > validation failure, so they can correct mistakes without having to fill > the entire form in again. If you really want to reset the form to its > starting state before redisplaying, discarding the user's input, then > you would need to do that in your validate() method (remember, if you > don't already have a validate() method, that when you add one it needs > to call super.validate() to trigger the XML-based validation). > > If you just want to provide a button the user can click to reset the > form, a 'submit' button and round trip through your action is the > correct way to do so. As you've realized, a 'reset' button just tells > the browser to restore the input values it received the last time the > form was loaded. > > L. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/reset-problem-for-a-dynavalidator-form-tp15244933p15245650.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
