Hello Bill,
Try to use
<html:form action="insertQuestion.do">
<html:text property="questionDesc"/>
</html:form>
not
<html:form action="insertQuestion">
<html:text property="questionDesc"/>
</html:form>
and restart servlet container (Tomcat, Resin, etc.) after
strut-config.xml changing (or call http://host:port/path/admin/reload)
Friday, June 08, 2001, 11:43:06 PM, you wrote:
BC> Hello,
BC> I just am starting out with struts, and I have a question. I
BC> started with this syntax in my test jsp:
BC> <html:form name="questionForm" action="insertQuestion">
BC> <html:text property="questionDesc"/>
BC> </html:form>
BC> and this in my struts-config.xml:
BC> <form-bean name="questionForm"
BC> type="com.companyname.actionform.QuestionForm"/>
BC> but I was getting this error:
BC> javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Must specify type attribute if name is
BC> specified
BC> #########################
BC> After searching this list's archives, I saw a reply to a similar
BC> question from Craig McClanahan that states:
BC> > If you specify name here, you must also specify type.
BC> >
BC> > If you change this to:
BC> >
BC> > <form:form action="regstep1.do"> The tag will be smart enough
BC> > to figure out what form bean name you want, without
BC> > having to specify it both here and in struts-config.xml.
BC> >
BC> so, to test, I specified the name in my jsp html:form tag so it looked
BC> like this:
BC> <html:form name="questionForm"
BC> type="com.companyname.actionform.QuestionForm" action="insertQuestion">
BC> and this worked.
BC> #########################
BC> But, I don't want to have to list the classnames in the JSPs, so I tried
BC> to follow craigs suggestion. I changed the lines in the JSP to:
BC> <html:form name="questionForm" action="insertQuestion">
BC> and tried this in my struts-config.xml:
BC> <form-bean name="questionForm"
BC> type="com.companyname.actionform.QuestionForm"/>
BC> <action path="/insertQuestion"
BC> type="com.companyname.actionmap.InsertQuestionAction"
BC> name="questionForm"
BC> scope="request"
BC> validate="false">
BC> <forward name="success" path="/strutstest.jsp"/>
BC> </action>
BC> but now I get this error:
BC> javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find ActionMappings or
BC> ActionFormBeans collection
BC> I also searched on this error, but the messages I found did not seem to
BC> match my situation.
BC> #######################################
BC> Since it works when I specify both the name and type in the html:form
BC> tag, I am starting to wonder if my struts-config.xml (in my WEB-INF dir)
BC> is being read. Is it enough to put this file in the WEB-INF directory?
BC> Also, when I had the name in my html:form tag and the type in the
BC> form-bean tag, it seemed obvious how these two things were linked (even
BC> thought this was not correct).
BC> When I follow Craig's suggestion, I am unsure how "The tag will be smart
BC> enough to figure out what form bean name you want." Does it use the JSP
BC> name to link to the "path" attribute of the action tag, and link the
BC> name attribute of the action tag to the name attribute of the form-bean tag?
BC> Sorry about the length of this message, but I wanted to try to be as
BC> specific as possible about the problem.
BC> Also, if anyone knows of any good documentation links, I am open to
BC> suggestions. Other than the docs on the apache site, I have only found
BC> www.husted.com , which has lots of useful tips. Any others out there?
BC> Thanks, Bill
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Best regards,
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