[WW-4188] In struts tag lib, required attribute removed in latest version ie 2.3.15.1

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.15.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.12
• Component/s: Other
• Labels: struts-tags-required-attribute

Environment

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• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Lukasz Lenart
• Reporter: mahendran
• Created: 05/Sep/13 07:09
• Updated: 12/Oct/16 14:41
• Resolved: 18/Mar/16 07:17

Description

we are using struts 2.0.5 and 2.3.4.1 in our applications. And we decided to migrate to 2.3.15.1 to get the security fixes.

we use struts tags to render UI components and using 'required' attribute to get the '*' along with the components.

In the version 2.3.15.1, the attribute required is dropped, and we need to change to requiredLabel to get the same effect, this increases migration&testing effort for a application which has 1000+pages

Hence we require a backward compatibility for 'required' attribute in struts tags.

Also nowhere in the migration document this information is specified. This makes the struts migration as block-box. Hence we require a proper migration document which should specify what are all the changes required in the application to migrate the struts.

But we managed to get the '*' in UI by replacing UIBean.class,AbsctactUITag.class and struts.tld from 2.3.4.1 version.

Issue Links

• is broken by: WW-3908 FreeMarker textfield tag doesn't allow the new HTML5 required attribute
• is duplicated by: WW-4613 UIBean class. "required" property not found when migrating from Struts 2.3.8 to 2.3.24