1.validation.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Using Ajax for validation</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../js/validation.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Ajax Validation Example</h1>
Birth date: <input type="text" size="10" id="birthDate" οnchange="validate();"/>
<div id="dateMessage"></div>
</body>
</html>
2.validation.js
//<script type="text/javascript">
var xmlHttp;
function createXMLHttpRequest() {
if (window.ActiveXObject) {
xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
else if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
}
function validate() {
createXMLHttpRequest();
var date = document.getElementById("birthDate");
var url = "ValidationServlet?birthDate=" + escape(date.value);
xmlHttp.open("GET", url, true);
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = callback;
xmlHttp.send(null);
}
function callback() {
if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) {
if (xmlHttp.status == 200) {
var mes =
xmlHttp.responseXML
.getElementsByTagName("message")[0].firstChild.data;
var val =
xmlHttp.responseXML
.getElementsByTagName("passed")[0].firstChild.data;
setMessage(mes, val);
}
}
}
function setMessage(message, isValid) {
var messageArea = document.getElementById("dateMessage");
var fontColor = "red";
if (isValid == "true") {
fontColor = "green";
}
messageArea.innerHTML = "<font color=" + fontColor + ">"
+ message + " </font>";
}
// </script>
3. ValidationServlet.java
package ajaxbook.chap4;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class ValidationServlet extends HttpServlet {
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
boolean passed = validateDate(request.getParameter("birthDate"));
response.setContentType("text/xml");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
String message = "You have entered an invalid date.";
if (passed) {
message = "You have entered a valid date.";
}
out.println("<response>");
out.println("<passed>" + Boolean.toString(passed) + "</passed>");
out.println("<message>" + message + "</message>");
out.println("</response>");
out.close();
}
private boolean validateDate(String date) {
boolean isValid = true;
if(date != null) {
SimpleDateFormat formatter= new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
try {
formatter.parse(date);
} catch (ParseException pe) {
System.out.println(pe.toString());
isValid = false;
}
} else {
isValid = false;
}
return isValid;
}
}