As a side note I'd watch out putting dots in your actions .. I was doing the same and it worked .. and then i was getting an error that complained it could find the action...
perhaps it was the release i was using or something, but i'd hate someone else to wash time out over this as well.. If its working however then don't fix it... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Conlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 8:42 PM Subject: RE: Pre-populating Form Bean > > This can not be the correct way to do this. > > I removed any reference to the form from the pre-Action: > > <action path="/customer.customerAccountDetails.pre.edit" > type="com.yordata.action.customer.CustomerAccountDetailsPreEditAction"> > <forward name="success" path="customer.edit_accountdetails"/> > </action> > > Then I placed the Form into the session in the action like this: > session.setAttribute( "customerDetailsForm", custForm); > > This works but, I do not want to hard-code the form reference like this. > > Mark > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Conlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 2:30 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Pre-populating Form Bean > > > > Okay, I think I am missing something major here. > By watching the log files I see the following. > > 1)Proccessing my pre edit Action - > "customer.customAccountDetails.pre.edit" > 2)Struts then looks for my ActionForm - "customerDetailsForm" > 3)Struts then creates my ActionForm since it can not find it. > 4)The form fails validation, as described by my validation.xml file. > > The pre edit Action never runs... > > The result is that I arrive at my "create" page with validation errors > because the validation logic tells it to return to that page. > > So, how can I pre-populate a Form? What am I don't wrong here... > > Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Conlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 1:38 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Pre-populating Form Bean > > > Okay so I have done the following... > I placed name="customerDetailsForm" into my action declaration.. > It wanted an input field as well so I added that too. > > Now my form comes up and it is still not populated... > > My action execute code is below... are you sure I don't need to place > the custForm back into the session somehow ? > > > Thanks > Mark > > logger.debug("performAction starting"); > ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors(); > ActionForward actionForward = mapping.findForward(FAILURE); > CustomerDetailsForm custForm = (CustomerDetailsForm) form; > HttpSession session = (HttpSession) request.getSession(); > > custForm = this.setup( session ); > actionForward = mapping.findForward(SUCCESS); > > logger.debug("performAction exiting"); > > Action Declaration: > > <action path="/customer.customerAccountDetails.edit" > type="com.yordata.action.customer.CustomerAccountDetailsEditAction" > name="customerDetailsForm" > scope="session" > input="customer.account_details_view"> > <forward name="success" > path="/customer.customerAccountDetails.view.do"/> > <forward name="failure" path="customer.edit_accountdetails"/> > </action> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eddie Bush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 2:13 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Pre-populating Form Bean > > If this is a form which you've declared in your config file, and it's > associated with this action and you're forwarding to a JSP, you really > needn't bother sticking it into any scope. Struts will do this for you. > > Just populate the form and return an ActionForward and let Struts do > it's thing. > > ... so far as your error is concerned, I can't imagine why you're > receiving it. You did specify a 'name="formName"' as an attribute to > this action, right? That's how you make the association between the > action and the form. I believe this value would probably be null if you > > didn't specify that attribute - and I can see where that would generate > an error. > > Ah - yes. I see your action declaration now. Add in > 'name="customerDetailsForm"' to your <action line. That will build the > association for you. Once you've done this, you no longer have to worry > > about creating the form ... or anything like that - and it's the *only* > way you're going to get Struts to populate the form for you > automatically (why would it populate something if it doesn't know there > is something to populate?). > > Good luck! > > Mark Conlin wrote: > > > > >I would like to pre-populate a form bean for an edit screen. > >I have spent the last hour or two reading the archives and still I have > >failed to find the help I need. > >Any feedback would be appreciated. > > > >I have an Action class CustomerAccountDetailsPreEditAction that > >pre-populates my form. > >However, I do not know how to place the form back into the session or > >request so that the jsp page can find it and use it to display values. > > > >request.setAttribute(mapping.getName(), myForm); > >session.setAttribute(mapping.getName(), myForm); > > > >Both result in an error. > > > >Here is the action declaration: > > <action path="/customer.customerAccountDetails.pre.edit" > > > >type="com.yordata.action.customer.CustomerAccountDetailsPreEditAction"> > > <forward name="success" > >path="customer.edit_accountdetails"/> > > </action> > > > > > >Here is the form declaration: > ><form-bean name="customerDetailsForm" > >type="com.yordata.form.CustomerDetailsForm"/> > > > > > >Thanks for your help, > >Mark > > > > > > > > -- > Eddie Bush > > > > > > -- > 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]> > > > -- > 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]>
