Struts 2 validate specific action in xml

Question

I want to validate specific method only in action class. Action method is this.

public String add() throws Exception {

         


        

Answer 1

I had similar problems but then these are couple of things that i rectified :

1) DOCTYPE in the yourAction-yourAlias-validation.xml should be

2)Created a custom interceptor to exclude the methods that need not be validated.Below is a sample for my candidate registration where i had to skip validation for district method which fetched districts for a state.

 
  
   
     input,district
    
  




            
            
                /jsps/student/studentregistration.jsp
                /jsps/student/registrationfailure.jsp
                /jsps/login.jsp
                /jsps/includes/dropdown_districts_regoffice.jsp