I have the following problem:

My validator gets NOT called as soon as I initialize some properties in
my form. In my form bean I have:

public class QueryTripsForm extends ValidatorActionForm
{
 private String startPeriodDisplay = "2007-01-01";
 private String endPeriodDisplay = "2099-12-31";
 ....
     // other properties, getters and setters doing
     // type conversions from string to date etc...
}

I did NOT implement (overwrite) the validate method, but I implemented
a reset method.

in my struts-config.xml I have:

....

  <form-bean name="queryTripsForm"
type="ch.smartsol.struts.form.QueryTripsForm" />
...
  <action
    name="queryTripsForm"
    path="/queryTrips"
    scope="request"
    input="/form/queryTrips.jsp"
    validate="true"
    type="ch.smartsol.struts.action.ListTripsAction">
    <forward name="Success" path="/form/queryTrips.jsp" />
  </action>
...

and in my validation.xml I have

<form name="/queryTrips">
  <field property="startPeriodDisplay" depends="required, date">
   <msg name="required" key="QueryTripsForm.start.required"/>
   <msg name="date" key="QueryTripsForm.start.date"/>
   <var>
   <var-name>datePatternStrict</var-name>
   <var-value>yyyy-MM-dd</var-value>
   </var>
  </field>
  <field property="endPeriodDisplay" depends="required, date">
   <msg name="required" key="QueryTripsForm.end.required"/>
    <msg name="date" key="QueryTripsForm.end.date"/>
    <var>
      <var-name>datePatternStrict</var-name>
    <var-value>yyyy-MM-dd</var-value>
    </var>
  </field>
</form>

If I do NOT initialize the two strings in my form bean the validator is
called and the first time the form displays it contains the validation
error messages!! If I initialize the two strings with a default value
(as shown above), the validator is NOT called at all and the user can
submit empty fields.

Any idea what I am doing wrong here???

Tom

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