Commons validator validwhen rules

Question

I have a form, something like this:
<html:radio property="type" value="1" /><html:text property="field1"/>
<html:radio property="type" value="2" /><html:text property="field2"/>
<html:radio property="type" value="3" /><html:text property="field3"/>
It need to apply some validation rules on the fields: field1, field2, field3 only if set
proper html:radio ... So if we choose type=1 then filed1 must be validate on required and
mask rules, but field2 and field3 should stay untouchable(without validation).
How can I configure it in validation.xml ? Is it possible ? I think validwhen rules must
be applied.
My variant below (but it's not working as I expect):
<field property="field1" depends="validwhen, integer, intRange">
<arg0 key="test.field1"/>
<arg1 name="intRange" key="${var:min}" resource="false"/>
<arg2 name="intRange" key="${var:max}" resource="false"/>
<var>
<var-name>test</var-name>
<var-value>((type!=1) or (*this* != null))</var-value>
</var>
<var>
<var-name>min</var-name>
<var-value>1</var-value>
</var>
<var>
<var-name>max</var-name>
<var-value>99</var-value>
</var>
</field>
Validation performing in anyway, independently what type selected(type==1 or
type==2 or type==3)...

Answer 1

Javascript validation? Yup, looks like your code is calling
a Javascript method all right. But you didn't post the
code that contains that method.Just to clarify a bit on this, as it is rather struts specific.
The validator framework lets you define your validations in the validator.xml file, and does the validation server side.
Struts also has a tag that will generate a javascript function to do the validation client side as well. : <html:javascript formName="loginForm" />
If you view source on the generated page, you would get the generated function.
The code posted looks valid as far as that goes.
My guess: The i18n lookup is failing and returning null.
Are loginForm.email and loginForm.password defined in the resource bundle props.ApplicationResources?
To double check this try changing the struts-config messageResources tag:
<message-resources parameter="props.ApplicationResources" null="false"/> so that instead of null (probably being converted to empty string) you should see a message like ???loginForm.email??? is required.
Hope this helps,
evnafets