I'm trying to add regular Javabean style properties, as well as dynamic
properties.
an excerpt from the struts-config would be something like:
<form-bean name="AddressForm" type="com.xxxxx.XXDynaActionForm"
dynamic="true" className="com.xxxxx.struts.config.XXFormBeanConfig" >
<set-property property="voClassName"
value="com.xxxxx.AddressTypeVO"/>
<set-property property="converterClassName"
value="com.xxxxx.AddressType"/>
<form-property name="add1" type="java.lang.String"/>
<form-property name="add2" type="java.lang.String"/>
<form-property name="add3" type="java.lang.String"/>
</form-bean>
So in effect, the XXDynaActionForm class simply adds 2 properties to the
standard DynaActionForm, and likewise for the XXFormBeanConfig class.
According the 1.1 dtd this is allowable.
If it's not obvious from the above, what I'm trying to do is to write as
little code as possible ....
there'll be the one ActionFormClass, using dynamic properties. As the
project is using EJB, the Action class will convert the dynamic properties
to the relevant Value Object type using the specifined converter, before
invoking the required business object.
I could have the voClassName, and converterClassName as form-property's with
an initial value. But, would these not then get cleared on calling the reset
method ?
Roy.
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 February 2002 00:14
To: Struts Developers List
Subject: Re: DynaActionFormClass & set-property
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Roy Porter wrote:
>
> If you extend the DynaActionFormClass to add your own properties, the
> current code doesn't seem to copy these properties to the DynaActionForm
> class when it creates it.
>
By "add your own properties", do you mean adding your own *dynamic*
properties, or regular JavaBeans style properties? Only the former are
used in DynaActionFormClass.
> In tracing the code through, the DynaActionFormClass gets initialized
> correctly with the properties form the struts-config file, but there
> doesn't seem to be any code to copy these over into the Form.
>
PropertyUtils (which is what the form tags use underneath the covers)
understands what to do with DynaBeans -- could you supply an example of
what you are trying to do?
> Is there any specific way the properties should be created, or has this
> code just not been written yet ?
>
I guess I've been assuming that people would just define what they need in
struts-config.xml and not have to subclass for this purpose. The only
time you should need to subclass would be to implement a custom reset() or
validate() method.
> Roy.
>
Craig
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