[WW-600] Enable Client-side validation for visitor validations

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: WW 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.15
• Component/s: XML Validators

Environment

JDK 1.4.2, Tomcat 5.0.27, WebWork CVS (20040721)

• Assignee: Lukasz Lenart
• Reporter: Matt Raible
• Created: 21/Jul/04 20:37
• Updated: 24/Jun/13 09:24
• Resolved: 24/May/13 08:56

Description

The client-side JavaScript doesn't work as advertised on:

http://wiki.opensymphony.com/display/WW/Client-Side+Validation

I have the following form:

<ww:form action="'saveUser'" validate="true" cssClass="'detail'" method="'post'">

This generates the following onsubmit handler:

onsubmit="return(${parameters.name}_validate())"

And the following JavaScript after the form:

<script type="text/javascript">
function ${parameters.name}_validate() {
var form = document.forms['${parameters.name}'];
var focus = ${parameters.name}_validate_actual();
if (focus != null) {
form.elements[focus].focus();
if (form.elements[focus].type == 'text' || form.elements[focus].type == 'textarea')

{ form.elements[focus].select(); }

return false;
} else

{ return true; }

}

function ${parameters.name}_validate_actual() {
var form = document.forms['${parameters.name}'];
// cannot find any applicable validators
return null;
}
</script>

If I add name="'user'" to the <ww:form>, then the JavaScript looks right, but I get:

function user_validate_actual()

{ var form = document.forms['user']; // cannot find any applicable validators return null; }

I have the following in validators.xml:

<validator name="requiredstring"
class="com.opensymphony.webwork.validators.JavaScriptRequiredStringValidator"/>

Oddly enough, XMLBuddy (in Eclipse) says that "name" must be declared.