Problems setting form in session

Eric Rasmussen Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:27:42 -0700

I am trying to set a form bean in session so it can be used accross Action classes. Specifically, I am trying to get the form bean to remember a value so it can repopulate the jsp page accordingly when that page appears again (if the user hits 'cancel').

My assumption: that setting <action name="testForm" scope="session" ... > would put the form bean referenced by 'testForm' into session scope.

This assumption is either wrong, or there is a bug in struts, or I am doing something else wrong.

My struts config:

<form-bean name="testForm" type="[path].TestForm"/>

<action path="/test1"

type="[path].Test1Action"

name="testForm"

scope="session"

validate="true"

        input="/[path]/test1.jsp">
      [forwards]
    </action>

    <action path="/test2"
        type="[path].Test2Action"
        name="[another form]"
        scope="request"
        validate="true"
        input="/[path/test2.jsp">
      [forwards]
      <forward name="cancel" path="/[path]/test1.jsp"/>
    </action>

Action test1.do loads first. A submit button loads Action test2.do, and it is in Test2Action that I attempt to recieve the form (testForm) that was supposedly put into session from test1.do.

I failed to figure out the name the form was given in the session, so I output all of the types of objects currently in session. Here is my code (in Test2Action):

    System.out.println("*** AttributeName List: ***");
    for(Enumeration e = request.getSession().getAttributeNames(); e.hasMoreElements(); )
    {
    System.out.println("*** e.nextElement()=" + e.nextElement() + " ***");
    }

And here is the output:

*** AttributeName List: ***

*** e.nextElement()=user ***
*** e.nextElement()=org.apache.struts.action.LOCALE ***

As you can see, the form bean was not put into session by the struts-config file (user we explicitely put into session). Either that, or I am misunderstanding something (it happens).

Could someone give me some advice on this?

Thanks,

- eric

Problems setting form in session

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