Validation

The OJB Console is fully integrated with the Struts Validation and the Commons Validator. You can leverage the Struts validator to associate specific validations with the Insert/Edit for of any class. Follow the following steps to learn how this is done:

Please see the Struts documentation for more information on the validations.

Update WEB-INF/validation.xml

The only thing required to utilize your own validations is to add your validation configuration as you would normally do for a struts application to the validation.xml under src/web/WEB-INF. You only need to make the following adjustments:

use the fully-qualified class name instead of the form name
use the field-descriptor's attribute name instead of the ActionForm's field name.

Note:

Currently, only server-side validations are supported.

Only one argument is supported, this is the attribute name.

The following example demonstrates a struts validation.xml

<form-validation>
   <global>   
     <constant>
        <constant-name>zip</constant-name>
        <constant-value>^\d{5}(-\d{4})?$</constant-value>
     </constant>         	            	   
   </global>
   
   <formset>     
      <form name="org.scrashmeow.ojb.content.Address">
         <field 
           property="shippingAddress"
           depends="required,mask">
           <arg0 key="label.address"/>
           <var>
             <var-name>mask</var-name>
             <var-value>^[\w\s]+$</var-value>
           </var>
         </field>         
         <field 
           property="shippingCity"
           depends="required,mask">
           <arg0 key="label.city"/>           
           <var>
             <var-name>mask</var-name>
             <var-value>^[a-zA-Z]*$</var-value>
           </var>
         </field>         
         <field 
           property="shippingState"
           depends="required,mask">
           <arg0 key="label.state"/>
           <var>
	     <var-name>mask</var-name>
	     <var-value>^[a-zA-Z]*$</var-value>
           </var>
         </field>         
         <field 
           property="shippingPostal"
           depends="required,mask">
           <arg0 key="label.postalCode"/>
           <arg1 name="minlength" key="${var:minlength}" resource="false"/>
           <var>
             <var-name>mask</var-name>
             <var-value>${zip}</var-value>
           </var>         	   
         </field>
      </form>            
   </formset>   
  
</form-validation>

Here is the repository.xml configuration for this same class:

<class-descriptor class="org.scrashmeow.ojb.content.Address" table="ADDRESSES">
	<field-descriptor name="uid" column="UID" jdbc-type="VARCHAR" primarykey="true"  nullable="false" />
	<field-descriptor name="shippingAddress" column="ADDRESS" jdbc-type="VARCHAR" nullable="false" />
	<field-descriptor name="shippingCity" column="CITY" jdbc-type="VARCHAR" nullable="false" />
	<field-descriptor name="shippingState" column="STATE" jdbc-type="VARCHAR" nullable="false" />
	<field-descriptor name="shippingPostal" column="POSTAL" jdbc-type="VARCHAR" nullable="false" />
</class-descriptor>







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