There is some movement towards separating Struts from the Servlet API so that it may be used in by the upcoming Portlets API. Craig is implementing a new RequestProcessor system that accomodates that and I would hate to move things in the opposite direction by tying ActionForms even more to HttpServletRequest objects.
David --- Kurt Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wasn't intending that the request object be kept around. Isn't it > true > that even if an ActionForm object is kept in the session scope, it is > created in response to a HTTP request? > > The idea is to simply use the ServletRequest or HttpServletRequest that > caused the ActionForm object to be created to initialize the properties > of > the ActionForm. The ServletRequest or HttpServletRequest wouldn't be > kept > as an attribute of the ActionForm so there is no serialization problem. > > If an ActionForm object could get a hold of the HttpServletRequest (and > thus > HttpSession) when it is created, you could eliminate the need for a > separate > Action to pre-populate the ActionForm properties. > > Does this make my request make any more sense or am I still missing > something. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 5:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 21479] - Add ServletRequest or > HttpServletRequest to ActionForm constructor > > > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT PLEASE POST YOUR BUG > RELATED COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AVAILABLE AT > <http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21479>. > ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL NOT BE COLLECTED AND > INSERTED IN THE BUG DATABASE. > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21479 > > Add ServletRequest or HttpServletRequest to ActionForm constructor > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Status|NEW |RESOLVED > Resolution| |INVALID > > > > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-07-10 > 21:19 ------- > ActionForm is Serializable and ServletRequest is not. Even if we made > the > request variable transient, there would be no way to retrieve the > request > object > when the form was deserialized. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
