Defining different validations based on the action method which is called in a Struts2 action

Question

I'm creating a web application with Struts 2. In a JSP file, I created a form like this :

<s:form action="actionclassname!%{methodToCall}" method="post">
...
</s:form> 

In the action class, I created two methods which will be called depending on the value of the variable methodToCall . That works well. My problem is that the two methods of the action class need some validations. So I used annotations to validate the form if the first method is called :

@Validations(....) 
public String actionMethod1(){
    ...
}

@Validations(...) 
public String actionMehod2(){
    ...
}

The first method works well with validations. My problem is on the second method. It seems like when I define validations (also using annotations) for this second method, the validations I defined on first method are executed again before those I defined for the second method.

How to make validations on the second method to run when it's this method which is called by the JSP?

Answer 1

In the action configuration via annotation you should use a parameter validateAnnotatedMethodOnly for validation interceptor, like in this example

@Action(value="actionclassname", results = {
  @Result(name="input", location = "/actionclassname.jsp")
},interceptorRefs = @InterceptorRef(value="defaultStack", params = {"validation.validateAnnotatedMethodOnly", "true"}))