I don't think there are any javadocs on this. Struts download comes with an example, struts-validator.war. (It uses ValidatorForm and calls validation inside the action class)
I have spent a lot of time on this trying to make easy use of DynaValidatorForm and multi-page form wizard. Right now I am thinking of extending the RequestProcessor too. (I don't want to extend DynaValidatorForm, not yet. -- Because I am lazy and I don't want to write Forms manually) -- Derek ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Higginbotham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:03 PM Subject: RE: Unclear semantics on form use for "wizards" Which javadocs are you all referencing for this discussion regarding wizards? I mean, I haven't seen wizard stuff in struts proper before, just in the workflow extension. Are we talking anything new, or just the application of struts 1.1 features into a custom wizard implementation via DynaForms, et. al.? Thanks, James > -----Original Message----- > From: edgar [mailto:edgar@;blue-moose.net] > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 1:56 PM > To: 'Struts Developers List' > Subject: RE: Unclear semantics on form use for "wizards" > > > Isn't a better way of handling this to keep awareness of the > action in progress (in reset and validate you can just look > at the request), and make a decision as to what reset action > to take rather than creating new classes. > > Hope that helps. > > Edgar > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Rosen [mailto:JRosen@;yvimail.com] > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:26 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: RE: Unclear semantics on form use for "wizards" > > > Hmmm... I'll have to look into how reset() impacts unchecked > checkboxes > - I haven't had to deal with too many checkboxes in my project. > > Thanks for raising some issues to make me think about it, Craig. > > Jason > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:craigmcc@;apache.org] > > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:21 AM > > To: Struts Developers List > > Subject: RE: Unclear semantics on form use for "wizards" > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Jason Rosen wrote: > > > > > Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:11:41 -0800 > > > From: Jason Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: RE: Unclear semantics on form use for "wizards" > > > > > > Craig, > > > > > > That's true, I could have subclassed DynaValidatorForm and > > modified the > > > reset() method to accomodate my needs. > > > > > > Originally, I had taken that route, but then found myself > with many > > > ActionForm subclasses to accomodate all sorts of > scenarios - I had > > > subclasses of DynaActionForm, DynaValidatorForm, and > > ActionForm, just to > > > turn off reset(). > > > > > > I found that by centralizing the reset "switch" and being able to > > > declare it in the struts-config.xml made my code and config > > files much > > > cleaner, re-usable, and easier to maintain. I also figured > > that if the > > > validate() hotspot could be turned on and off from the > > > struts-config.xml, why not reset()? > > > > > > > I think allowing reset() to be turned off completely would be > > confusing and error prone for anyone using a boolean form bean > > property, because an > > unchecked checkbox would no longer work as expected. > > > > > Jason Rosen > > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:craigmcc@;apache.org] > > > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:04 AM > > > To: Struts Developers List > > > Subject: RE: Unclear semantics on form use for "wizards" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Jason Rosen wrote: > > > > > > > Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:04:42 -0800 > > > > From: Jason Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Subject: RE: Unclear semantics on form use for "wizards" > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I actually had a similar problem with wanting to use > > Session scoped > > > > ActionForms and not having them reset every time they > > were recycled by > > > > an Action. > > > > > > > > > > An alternative strategy is to make the reset() method of > > your form beans > > > smarter about which page of a multi-page wizard this submit > > is for (easy > > > to determine because reset() has access to the request). > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
