ArticleSearchForm

This is the abstract super class of all article search forms.

<form-bean
  name="com.escenic.search.ArticleSearchForm"
  type="com.escenic.search.ArticleSearchForm"/>

This are the errors returned by the validate method found on this action form.

errors.integer: (On the includeSectionId property.) when the value of this property can't be converted to a integer
errors.required: (On the includeSubSections property.) when a value is missing for this property
errors.integer: (On the excludeSectionId property.) when we are not able to produce a Integer.
errors.required: (On the maxRows property.) when a value is missing for this property
errors.integer: (On the maxRows property.) when the value of this property can't be converted to a integer
errors.required: (On the optimized property.) when a value is missing for this property

ArticleSearchForm inherits properties from:

It also has the following properties of its own:

includeSectionId
String[]: The list over sections that is to be included. The list is made up of Strings that can be converted to Integers.
includeSubSections
String: Should we include sub sections in the search.; default value=false
excludeSectionId
String[]: The list over sections that is to be excluded. The list is made up of Strings that can be converted to Integers.
articleType
String[]: The Array of article types to be included in the search.; default value=an empty array, meaning that all article types is to be included
sortString
String: The String used for deciding the sort order.; default value=an empty String.
sortStrings
List: A list used to prepopulate the sortString properties. The list contains all legal values for the sortString property.
descending
String: Should we sort decending or ascending.
maxRows
String: the number of rows to return from the database.; default value=-1
searchType
String: the search type
searchTypes
List: A list used to prepopulate the searchType properties. The list contains all legal values for the searchType property.
optimized
String: the optimized property
stemType
String: the stem type property
stemTypes
List: A list used to prepopulate the stemType properties. The list contains all legal values for the stemType property.