Java tutorial
/* jBilling - The Enterprise Open Source Billing System Copyright (C) 2003-2009 Enterprise jBilling Software Ltd. and Emiliano Conde This file is part of jbilling. jbilling is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. jbilling is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with jbilling. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package com.sapienter.jbilling.server.user.validator; import javax.servlet.ServletContext; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import org.apache.commons.validator.Field; import org.apache.commons.validator.GenericValidator; import org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction; import org.apache.commons.validator.util.ValidatorUtils; import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors; import org.apache.struts.validator.Resources; public class AlphaNumValidator { private static String NUMBERS = ".*[0-9].*"; private static String LETTERS = ".*[A-Za-z].*"; public static boolean basicValidation(String password) { boolean result = true; if (password == null || password.equals("")) { return true; } if (!password.matches(LETTERS) || !password.matches(NUMBERS)) { result = false; } return result; } public static boolean validateAlphaNum(Object bean, ValidatorAction va, Field field, ActionErrors errors, HttpServletRequest request, ServletContext application) { String value = ValidatorUtils.getValueAsString(bean, field.getProperty()); if (!GenericValidator.isBlankOrNull(value)) { try { if (!basicValidation(value)) { errors.add(field.getKey(), Resources.getActionError(request, va, field)); return false; } } catch (Exception e) { errors.add(field.getKey(), Resources.getActionError(request, va, field)); return false; } } return true; } }