Simon (we meet again).. Sounds very interesting, but I'm not quite there: Firstly I'm not entirely sure what you mean by separating view and edit pages. I'm actually trying to write what I think of as an edit page (it basically is setting up some parameters for a graph). But I need to load default parameters (well its worse than that I actually load an existing "user" session bean as the page parameter, as this contains all the stuff I need).
Secondly, I do see what you mean by having a PreAction and a PostAction, but I don't see how I would set that up in the struts-config. Can you hold my hand a bit here, as it where? One more thing... how does the PreAction actually call the associated JSP. I seem to have a problem with this! Cheers... Howard On 15 Oct 2002 at 15:35, Chappell, Simon P wrote: > Howard, > > Remember what I said about Scriptlets? Well, calling an action with a mode is worse >and you'll be forced to watch Emmerdale farm until the cows come home as punishment! >(Gotta give these folks some humour, even if they won't understand it :-) > > Here's what I do, for what it's worth: > > When I have view and edit pages, I separate them. Better to have two pages that >don't have a bunch of <logic:equal> tags in them IMNSHO. e.g. fooDisplay.jsp and >fooEdit.jsp > > When I have a page foo.jsp, I create two actions: fooPreAction and fooPostAction. >The fooPreAction does whatever it takes to setup for the foo.jsp (mostly sticking >data into fooForm) and the fooPostAction does the actual processing. In our recent >project we observed this pattern and naming convention and it worked quite well for us. > > Simon > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Simon P. Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Java Programming Specialist www.landsend.com > Lands' End, Inc. (608) 935-4526 > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Howard Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:27 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: (sigh!) another pre-populate question > > > > > >Sorry if I keep asking variatons on the same question. > > > >I have a JSP called "dosomething" and an associated action > >called "dosomething > >Action". > > > >I want to pre-load the form, but this page can be called from > >all over the place, so my > >previous page calls the action for the "dosomething" page > >directly, having a link that > >looks like "/dosomething.do?action=new". The action creates > >and pre-populates the > >bean for the form. > > > >Question: (a) is this a sensible way to proceed (as far as I > >can tell it is similar to the > >method in the struts-example). and (b) How do I correctly call > >the "dosomething.jsp" > >page from the "dosomethingAction"?? > > > >Problem is I am using "mapping.getInput()" and all I get is an > >empty page with just > >headers - no errors - weird! > > > >HM > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
