I do the same as Eddie. Put an action in front of the form that sets its
initial values.
Dave
>From: "Hohlen, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: SURVEY: Proper Way To Pre-populate ActionForms
>Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:22:29 -0500
>
>I was wondering what the overall philosophy is in the Struts Users
>community
>in regards to pre-populating action forms? I sent a message out late last
>week asking for help on how to manually instantiate and pre-populate an
>action form (prior to forwarding to a JS) in Struts 1.1. That's when I
>realized this may be considered bad practice. Here are some comments I
>received:
>
>Eddie Bush:
>"No, no. Actions/Forms have a contract -- the form 'will' be created.
>You should not take this upon yourself. What you need to do is pre-face
>the page with a 'populate' action. Expect it to be there"
>
>James Turner:
>I can still point to cases where you need to manually pre-populate.
>For example, if you have multiple forms on a single JSP page, you either
>need to pre-populate the forms manually, or you'd have to daisy-chain a
>bunch of actions together, each one of which was responsible for
>pre-populating a single form. This seems clumsy to me. Maybe what we need
>is an authoritative way (i.e., an API) to instantiate DynaForms.
>
>What are others doing here? BTW, if manually pre-populating an action form
>is acceptable, does it make sense to create a method in the "RequestUtils"
>package making this
>easy to do for a DynaForm (Struts 1.1). For example (code provided by
>James
>Turner):
>
>ApplicationConfig appConfig =
> (ApplicationConfig)request.getAttribute(Action.APPLICATION_KEY);
>FormBeanConfig formBeanConfig =
> appConfig.findFormBeanConfig("myDynaActionForm");
>String beanType = formBeanConfig.getType();
>DynaActionForm bean;
>DynaActionFormClass formClass =
>
>DynaActionFormClass.createDynaActionFormClass(formBeanConfig);
>return (DynaActionForm) formClass.newInstance();
>
>Thanks! JOHN
>
>
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