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Jakarta Struts Cookbook
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Jakarta Struts Cookbook

by Bill Siggelkow
February 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 53m
English
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8.6. Validating Dates

Problem

You want to validate a calendar date and time field by specifying a specific format pattern.

Solution

Use the Validator's date rule to specify the expected pattern that the date must match. Example 8-8 shows some different ways of using this rule.

Example 8-8. Using the Validator's date rule

<field property="date1" depends="date">
    <arg key="Date1" resource="false"/>
    <var>
        <var-name>datePattern</var-name>
        <var-value>MM/dd/yyyy</var-value>
    </var>
</field>

<field property="date2" depends="date">
    <arg key="Date2" resource="false"/>
    <var>
        <var-name>datePatternStrict</var-name>
        <var-value>MM/dd/yyyy</var-value>
    </var>
</field>

<field property="dateTime" depends="date">
    <arg key="DateTime" resource="false"/>
    <var>
        <var-name>datePattern</var-name>
        <var-value>MM/dd/yy HH:mm</var-value>
    </var>
</field>

Discussion

Calendar dates have got to be one of the hardest field types to work with in a web application. The developer wants to ensure that only valid data gets into the system, but the users want to be able to enter the date in various formats. The Validator helps mitigate these conflicting desires by providing a robust rule for validating dates and times.

The date rule uses a Validator variable (var) to specify the pattern that a property value must match. The datePattern variable specifies the pattern for formatting the value using the java.text.SimpleDateFormat class. If SimpleDateFormat can format the value into a date, then the validation passes; otherwise, the ...

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