[Xdoclet-user] Using Validator with EJB generated VO's

[Ben W. <be...@ph...>]

Hi,

I saw an exchange posted here back in March between Erik Hatcher and 
Chris Butler about the inability to use the <strutsvalidationxml/> 
feature with complex types.  The mail archive is down, so I can't figure 
out if it was ever resolved.

I have a similar, if not identical problem.  I use VOs generated by 
xDoclet from CMP beans in ActionForms and would like to generate the 
validation descriptors using xDoclet also.

What I'd like to do is something like this:

/**
  *
  * @struts.validator
  *    property="accountInfo.name"
  *    type="required"
  *    msgkey="error.required"
  *
  * @struts.validator
  *    property="accountInfo.password"
  *    type="required"
  *    msgkey="error.required"
  *
  * ...etc
  */
public void setAccountInfo(AccountInfoValue accountInfo)

My question is this:  Is this feature going to be supported by xDoclet 
(or is there an existing workaround)?

Please let me know if I'm in the weeds here, but this seems like the 
appropriate pattern to be using from a best practices standpoint.

Thanks in advance,
Ben