Howard, Keep asking questions, you'll get there. :-)
Which part of the homeland do you live in? I was raised mostly in Cornwall, graduated from Plymouth University and lived for a few years in Wiltshire before crossing the pond and marrying one of the few Yanks with a sense of humour. :-) The first thing that you need to do is NOT edit your struts-config.xml file by hand when there are magnificent tools like the Struts Console available from James Holmes. Run, don't walk to http://www.jamesholmes.com/struts/console/ download it and start working with it. This will make life much easier. I'll save further advice until you've followed this advice first. :-) 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 3:44 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: (sigh!) another pre-populate question > > >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]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
