Spring validation errors not displayed
- by Art Vandelay
I have the following situation. I have a validator to validate my command object and set the errors on a Errors object to be displayed in my form. The validator is invoked as expected and works okay, but the errors i set on the Errors objects are not displayed, when i am sent back to my form because of the validation errors.
Validator:
public void validate(Object obj, Errors err) {
MyCommand myCommand = (MyCommand) obj;
int index = 0;
for (Field field : myCommand.getFields()) {
if (field.isChecked()) {
if ((field.getValue() == null) || (field.getValue().equals(""))) {
err.rejectValue("fields[" + index + "].value", "errors.missing");
}
}
index++;
}
if (myCommand.getLimit() < 0) {
err.rejectValue("limit", "errors.invalid");
}
}
Command:
public class MyCommand {
private List<Field> fields;
private int limit;
//getters and setters
}
public class Field {
private boolean checked;
private String name;
private String value;
//getters and setters
}
Form:
<form:form id="myForm" method="POST" action="${url}" commandName="myCommand">
<c:forEach items="${myCommand.fields}" var="field" varStatus="status">
<form:checkbox path="fields[${status.index}].checked" value="${field.checked}" />
<c:out value="${field.name}" />
<form:input path="fields[${status.index}].value" />
<form:errors path="fields[${status.index}].value" cssClass="error" /></td>
<form:hidden path="fields[${status.index}].name" />
</c:forEach>
<fmt:message key="label.limit" />
<form:input path="limit" />
<form:errors path="limit" cssClass="error" />
</form:form>
Controller:
@RequestMapping(value = REQ_MAPPING, method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String onSubmit(Model model, MyCommand myCommand, BindingResult result) {
// validate
myCommandValidator.validate(myCommand, result);
if (result.hasErrors()) {
model.addAttribute("myCommand", myCommand);
return VIEW;
}
// form is okay, do stuff and redirect
}
Could it be that the paths i give in the validator and tag are not correct? The validator validates a command object containing a list of objects, so that's why i give a index on the list in the command object when registering an error message (for example: "fields["+index+"]".value).
Or is it that the Errors object containing the errors is not available to my view?
Any help is welcome and appreciated, it might give me a hint or point me in right direction.
