Hi All

I have doubt in validation using struts

There is a text field "user id" in the form.
validation 1: The user id can be a email id.. if it is in email id format then it should be validated against email id validation rules.

validation 2: The user id can also be a alpha numeric value (other than email id) in that case custom validation should be done.

(If the user id in email id format then validation 1 should be performed else validation 2 should be performed)

The validation rules are working fine if any one of them is mentioned.How should i perform the validation as mentioned above

Thanks in advance
sri

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Hi sri

We have a validate(ActionMapping mapping,HttpServletRequest request) method in the form which return the ActionErrors.
just check inside the function whether it val1 or val2 and passes the values

HI
You can solve this problem usint the functions that you will have to use for the mailid validation


public static boolean isValidEmailID(String emailID)
{
    boolean flag = false;
    Pattern email = Pattern.compile("^[a-zA-Z]+([\\.-_]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*@[a-zA-Z]+([\\.-]?\\w+)*(\\.\\w{2,5})+$");

    Matcher fit = email.matcher(emailID);
    if(fit.matches())
    {
         flag= true;
    }
    else if( containsAlphaNumeric(emailID))
    {
          flag= true;
    }
    else
    {
          flag= false;
    }
    return flag;
}


    private static boolean containsAlphaNumeric(String emailID)
    {
        Pattern email = Pattern.compile("^[A-Za-z]\\w[A-Za-z0-9]+$");
        Matcher fit = email.matcher(emailID);
        return fit.matches();
    }