Struts2 Validation - No Validation on Input

Question

Every tutorial I have found on Struts2 Declarative validation explains how to make the fields validated which is nice and easy. But how do you enter the page with out it being validated?

I have the below Action mapped

    <package name="admin" namespace="/admin" extends="struts-default">
    <action name="display_*" class="action.admin.AdminAction" method="display">
        <result name="input">/WEB-INF/pages/secure/admin/adminUsers.jsp</result>
        <result name="success">/WEB-INF/pages/secure/admin/adminUsers.jsp</result>
    </action>   

Shouldn't I be able to call it with admin/display_input.action to skip validation?

Answer 1

You are using defaultStack (it's activated by default), see http://struts.apache.org/2.0.11/docs/interceptors.html (<default-interceptor-ref name="defaultStack"/>)

It contains validation interceptor which will ignore validation only on methods input,back,cancel,browse. So you can action via one of these methods, or you can use interceptor stack without validation interceptor (basicStack, for example).

You also can annotate your action method with @SkipValidation annotation.

Answer 2

Maybe this will help?

http://www.mail-archive.com/user@struts.apache.org/msg69320.html

Try setting the method attribute to method="{1}".