error messages

[rpereira]

Hi,
I was wondering if somebody could help me on a issue I am facing.
Is there a easy way to iterate through the errors returned by a controller? I mean, without bind tag and outside of a form tag. I am looking for a very generic way of showing the validation errors.

Regards,
Rodrigo Pereira

[maheshguruswamy]

I think you can use

<form:errors path="*"/>

to display all the errors.

[rpereira]

Hello,
thanks for your reply.
This works within form:form tag fine.
Unfortunately outside of form:form it displays nothing.

Regards,
Rodrigo Pereira

[maheshguruswamy]

So the page where you want to display validation errors doesn't have a form tag? Wouldn't you need one anyway to submit form data?

[rpereira]

I do have a form, but i am trying to accomplish this template with sitemesh

[ header ]
[error messages]
[menu | body ]
[ footer ]

so all the error messages are going to be handled by the template and i won't need to care anymore on displaying them.

Regards,
Rodrigo Pereira

[maheshguruswamy]

Hmm..then you probably have to hack around the form errors tag..maybe extend it and customize it to work for your situation.