How to disable Struts validation under certain conditions

Question

The problem I have is that I need to disable struts validation when selecting certain conditions that will leave input boxes disabled and blank.

Leaving these inputs empty causes the validation to fail which is not what I need

Answer 1

Set a property on your form when you trigger these conditions and then check for that in your validator:

if(!form.isSkipValidation()){
   // validation goes here
}

If you're triggering these skip validation conditions with javascript, you can set this property with a hidden input field:

<input type="hidden" name="skipValidation" value="false"/>