Example of struts2.2.1 field validator.
Posted on: February 7, 2011 at 12:00 AM
In this section, we will introduce you to about the field validator.

Example of struts2.2.1 field validator.

In this section, you will see the use how to validate form field or user input in struts2. 
Struts2 used a xml file for validation called validation.xml

Struts2 provides two ways for defining validator in XML file.

  1. Field validator
  2. Non-field validator

Field validator- It works on single field of form. It define validator per field base.ADS_TO_REPLACE_1

<validators>
<field name="username">
<field-validator type="required">
<message>User name required.</message>
</field-validator>
</field>
</validators>

Here, you will see a email validation example.

index.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"ADS_TO_REPLACE_2

pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

<%@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s" %>

<html>ADS_TO_REPLACE_3

<head><title>Email_Validator_Example</title><s:head/></head>

<body>Email_Validator_Example.....

<s:form action="emailvalidation.action">ADS_TO_REPLACE_4

<s:textfield name="email" label="Email-Id :"></s:textfield>

<s:submit></s:submit></s:form>

</body>ADS_TO_REPLACE_5

</html>

EmailValidationAction.java (Action )

package roseindia;

import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;

public class EmailValidationAction extends ActionSupport {ADS_TO_REPLACE_6

private String email;

public String getEmail() {

return email; }ADS_TO_REPLACE_7

public void setEmail(String email) {

this.email = email; }

@OverrideADS_TO_REPLACE_8

public String execute() throws Exception {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

return SUCCESS; }ADS_TO_REPLACE_9

}

EmailValidationAction-validation.xml 

<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC

"-//OpenSymphony Group//XWork Validator 1.0.2//EN"

"http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/xwork-validator-1.0.2.dtd">ADS_TO_REPLACE_10

<validators>

<field name="email">

<field-validator type="requiredstring">ADS_TO_REPLACE_11

<message>Email id is required</message>

</field-validator>

<field-validator type="email">ADS_TO_REPLACE_12

<message>Please enter valid email id.</message>

</field-validator>

</field>ADS_TO_REPLACE_13

</validators>

struts.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLICADS_TO_REPLACE_14

"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"

"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">

<struts>ADS_TO_REPLACE_15

<constant name="struts.enable.DynamicMethodInvocation" value="false" />

<constant name="struts.devMode" value="false" />

<package name="roseindia" namespace="/" extends="struts-default">ADS_TO_REPLACE_16

<action name="emailvalidation" class="roseindia.EmailValidationAction">

<result name="input">index.jsp</result>

<result name="error">index.jsp</result>ADS_TO_REPLACE_17

<result>successJsp.jsp</result>

</action></package>

</struts>

success.jspADS_TO_REPLACE_18

<%@ page language="java" 

contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"

pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>ADS_TO_REPLACE_19

<%@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s" %>

<html>

<head><title>Insert title here</title></head>ADS_TO_REPLACE_20

<body>Email-Id....

<s:property value="email"/></body>

</html>

OutputADS_TO_REPLACE_21

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Download Source CodeADS_TO_REPLACE_23

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