Re: FormDef

2006-08-02 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 8/2/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/20/06, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FormDef support nested beans, and nested collections of beans. If you > had a nested Address object, your form would look like: > > > > In your example Address is nested within Acti

Re: FormDef

2006-08-02 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/20/06, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FormDef support nested beans, and nested collections of beans. If you had a nested Address object, your form would look like: In your example Address is nested within ActionForm, right? What if I have an object like Person having Address

Re: FormDef

2006-07-21 Thread Michael Jouravlev
ing List > Subject: Re: FormDef > > Um, by nested beans I mean a bean which is a property of ActionForm > like Employee, not a bean which is a property of a bean which is a > property of an ActionForm, like Address. I guess there is a > discrepancy in terminology here ;-) > &

Re: FormDef

2006-07-21 Thread Hubert Rabago
(inline) -Original Message- From: Michael Jouravlev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:16 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: FormDef Um, by nested beans I mean a bean which is a property of ActionForm like Employee, not a bean which is a property of a

Re: FormDef

2006-07-20 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Um, by nested beans I mean a bean which is a property of ActionForm like Employee, not a bean which is a property of a bean which is a property of an ActionForm, like Address. I guess there is a discrepancy in terminology here ;-) What I mean is this (taken from http://www.rabago.net/struts/formd

Re: FormDef

2006-07-20 Thread Hubert Rabago
(was: Is there any direct link between model and view in struts..) On 7/20/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another library, FormDef, can build a dynaform based on properties of nested business object Hey Michael, Just thought I'd set the record straight. FormDef does not requ

Re: [FORMDEF] Combining FormDef and Struts form definitions - 2

2005-11-03 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 11/3/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Started a new thread, so it were visible in GMail. > > That was the idea. If FormDef could somehow pull my definitions from > struts-config.xml or, which is much better, from configured Java > objects, I would not have to redefine the prope

Re: [FORMDEF] Combining FormDef and Struts form definitions

2005-11-02 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 11/2/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it were possible to use form definitions made in struts-config.xml, > then you would not have to reimplement this property in FormDef, and I > would not have to wait for you to reimplement it ;-) I would just > apply your patch to my c

Re: [FORMDEF] Combining FormDef and Struts form definitions

2005-11-02 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 11/2/05, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/2/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Um, that is not exactly what I asked about. I want to define > > resettable properties in struts-config.xml file (or somewhere else, I > > don't care where), for example: > > > >

Re: [FORMDEF] Combining FormDef and Struts form definitions

2005-11-02 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 11/2/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Um, that is not exactly what I asked about. I want to define > resettable properties in struts-config.xml file (or somewhere else, I > don't care where), for example: > > type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm"> > >re

Re: [FORMDEF] Combining FormDef and Struts form definitions

2005-11-02 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 11/2/05, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/2/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hubert, > > > > I cannot find if you explained it already, how to combine FormDef and > > a regular Struts dynaform definitions. In your manual you write only > > about DynaValidatorF

Re: [FORMDEF] Combining FormDef and Struts form definitions

2005-11-02 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 11/2/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hubert, > > I cannot find if you explained it already, how to combine FormDef and > a regular Struts dynaform definitions. In your manual you write only > about DynaValidatorForm. FormDef can only work with forms defined by FormDef. > Con

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Dave Newton
Hubert Rabago wrote: On 10/12/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you want to say, that Struts somehow gets to know that a form was submitted? How exactly does it do that? Can you show it in the code? There is nothing in request which says "this stuff comes from an HTML form"

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 10/12/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, that means that I should patch RequestProcessor/RequestUtils > myself. Thanks for clarification. Still, that enhancement in Bugzilla, > it is important despite the fact that it is outside of FormDef's > scope. All I am asking for is

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 10/12/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am telling you that checkbox values should be cleared, you are > telling me that reset() is get called. Don't you think these are > different things? ;-) I don't think there are any disagreements there. :) We're discussing clearing th

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Michael Jouravlev
> > So, returning back to what should be done: the checkbox values should > > be cleared, before they are populated with request values. > > And this is what Struts does now, assuming you have the correct code > in reset(). http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/struts-html.html#checkbox I am telling

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 10/12/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really want to use your stuff, but I need to differentiate between > request types (more generally, between input and output phases, but in > 95% of cases it boils down to request type). It seems your concerns are outside the scope of F

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 10/12/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is not *my* GET ;-) Ok, I will try to analyze what happens on > request, please correct me if I am wrong. > > HTML form is submitted to an action (in 99% of cases via POST); > > 1) RequestProcessor.process() is called: > > 2) Action

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 10/12/05, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still not quite getting you. Are you saying that reset will be called > during your GET? Is this because you've configured your action with > the same form? It is not *my* GET ;-) Ok, I will try to analyze what happens on request, please co

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Hubert Rabago
Still not quite getting you. Are you saying that reset will be called during your GET? Is this because you've configured your action with the same form? On 10/12/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you're prepopulating your form, none of this matters, since either > > (1)

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 10/12/05, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure we're understanding each other about this request type. > > When a form is submitted, here's what happens: > > * Struts receives a request for an action > * Struts sees that a form was configured for the mapping, so it calls > ret

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Hubert Rabago
I'm not sure we're understanding each other about this request type. When a form is submitted, here's what happens: * Struts receives a request for an action * Struts sees that a form was configured for the mapping, so it calls retrieves the form (if it can find it) or creates a new one [processA

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Michael Jouravlev
That would be great, but please don't forget the request type. Usually I need to do this for POST requests only, this separation by type is really important to me. So instead of reset="true" I would rather have: where "reset" can be: * "true" or "ALL" to reset for any request type; * "POST" or

Re: [FORMDEF] Resetting booleans for session-scoped dynaforms

2005-10-12 Thread Hubert Rabago
Wow, you've got good timing, because someone is calling for this very feature in FormDef, patch provided: https://formdef.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2 The quick answer to your question is "no". FormDef doesn't meddle with how Struts populates the form. It's more of a utility class you c

Re: FormDef [was Re: I remember now why I said I usually use my VO in my ActionForm]

2005-09-17 Thread Laurie Harper
No, though to be honest I didn't try very hard; I found another route to achieving what I needed and never came back to look further at FormDef. L. Ted Husted wrote: Just curious, Laurie. Did you ever find a way to use FormDef within your constraints? On 7/18/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: FormDef [was Re: I remember now why I said I usually use my VO in my ActionForm]

2005-09-17 Thread Ted Husted
Just curious, Laurie. Did you ever find a way to use FormDef within your constraints? On 7/18/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hubert Rabago wrote: > > On 7/16/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I then fill the form in using a JSP tag if > >>necessary (i.e. the first ti

Re: FormDef [was Re: I remember now why I said I usually use my VO in my ActionForm]

2005-07-17 Thread Laurie Harper
Hubert Rabago wrote: On 7/16/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I then fill the form in using a JSP tag if necessary (i.e. the first time the form is displayed, I call a tag to populate it). So will the techniques described in the article work with this scheme? It probably won't. F

Re: FormDef [was Re: I remember now why I said I usually use my VO in my ActionForm]

2005-07-17 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 7/16/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Given that FormDef is using DynaBeans / DynaForms under the covers, am I > right in assuming that form properties would need to be accessed with > expressings like ${EmployeeForm.map['address'].map['city']} outside of > Struts tags and si