Spring MVC Validation (Client side)

1. maven2 configuration

        <dependency>
            <groupid>org.springmodules</groupid>
            <artifactid>spring-modules-validation</artifactid>
            <version>0.8a</version>
        </dependency>

2.spring applicationContext.xml

 <bean id="validatorFactory"
  class="org.springmodules.validation.commons.DefaultValidatorFactory">
  <property name="validationConfigLocations">
   <list>
    <value>/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml</value>
    <value>/WEB-INF/validation.xml</value>
   </list>
  </property>
 </bean>
 <bean id="beanValidator"
  class="org.springmodules.validation.commons.DefaultBeanValidator">
  <property name="validatorFactory" ref="validatorFactory" />
 </bean>

3.Download validator-rules.xml from SpringModules sample Download spring modules and you can use validator-rules.xml in spring-modules-validation-commons-samples-src.zip as sample 4.Use spring modules validation tag library. web.xml

 <jsp-config>
  <taglib>
   <taglib-uri>http://www.springmodules.org/tags/commons-validator</taglib-uri>
   <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/spring-commons-validator.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>
 </jsp-config>

jsp

<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springmodules.org/tags/commons-validator" prefix="validator" %>

5.Create validation.js web.xml

 <servlet>
        <servlet-name>javascript</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>javascript</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/validation.js</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

create javascript-servlet.xml

 <bean id="urlMapping"
  class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
  <property name="mappings">
   <props>
    <prop key="/validation.js">
     staticJavascriptController
    </prop>
   </props>
  </property>
 </bean>

 <bean id="staticJavascriptController"
  class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ParameterizableViewController">
  <property name="viewName">
   <value>/common/validator.jsp</value>
  </property>
 </bean>

create validation.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="javascript/x-javascript" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springmodules.org/tags/commons-validator" prefix="validator" %>

<validator:javascript dynamicJavascript="false" staticJavascript="true"/>

6.Setting validation.xml and modify jsp form tag jsp form sample

  <form:form commandName="member" onsubmit="return validateLoginForm(this);">
   <form:errors path="*" />
   <table>
    <tr>
     <td>
      Account
     </td>
     <td>
      <form:input path="account"/>
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td>
      Password
     </td>
     <td>
      <form:password path="password"/>
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td>
      <input type="submit">
     </td>
    </tr>
   </table>
  </form:form>
  
  <validator:javascript formName="loginForm" staticJavascript="false"/>

validation.xml

<form-validation>
    <formset>
        <form
                name="loginForm">
            <field
                    property="account"
                    depends="required">
                <arg
                        key="prompt.account"/>
            </field>
            <field
                    property="password"
                    depends="required">
                <arg
                        key="prompt.password"/>
            </field>
        </form>
    </formset>
</form-validation>