Thanks for the reply, I can see the sense in putting contact, address and phone in one (Action) form. However how do you deal with one contact - one to many addresses/phones?
-----Original Message----- From: twang7090 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 4 February 2002 4:56 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Multiple beans Hi Joe, Please keep in mind that Struts's ActionForm is a map to a HTML Form object. In a HTML page, you will define a form this way: <FORM Name ="contactForm" ACTION="contact.do"> <TEXT name="firstName> <TEXT name="lastName> </Form> In Jsp page, using the struts tags, we do this way <html:form action="contact"> <html:text property="firstName" /> <html:text property="lastName" /> </html:form> Comparing this two, you find that the name of the form is specified in the struts-config.xml file by the <action path="/contact" name="contactForm" ...> The <action> tag in the struts-config.xml is the linker which links the struts tags in the jsp to the ActionForm in the servlet. <html:form action="contact"> on the jsp page causes the servelet created the contactForm as it is specified as the name in the contact action. And this is the only ActionForm that will be created for this action. (struts no any clue to see that you have to have a address or phone form to be created). Now in your case, as a edit page of jsp, in the user interface part, you'd better to put contact, address, phone in one form, and in your servlet you may create different objects and save them separately. If you really need to separate them on the jsp page, you may end up using three forms in the same jsp page with three submit buttons(or one by the help of javascript) to submit them. In this case you will create three <action> in struts-config.xml and define three <html:form> in the jsp page. Hope this helps, Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Latty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 9:32 PMSubject: Multiple beans > I am new to struts so excuse me if this is an incredibly naïve question, I > have searched through the archive put am not sure what to even search on. > > I have multiple beans for a form an example would be contact.jsp where the > ContactForm.java has the get and set methods for the contact e.g. firstName, > lastName etc, I have a bean AddressForm to handle the contact's address/s > with get and set methods (adress1, address2 and so on) and a bean for the > phone details (PhoneForm.java) with the corresponding phone information. > > <html:form action="contact"> > <html:text property="firstName" size="30" maxlength="30" /> > <html:text name="addressForm" property="address1" size="30" maxlength="30" > /> > <html:text name="phoneForm" property="phoneNumber" size="30" maxlength="30" > /> > . > > In struts-config I have > <action path="/contact" > type="com.blah.blah.ContactAction" > name="contactForm" > scope="request" > validate="true" > input="/contact.jsp"> > > <form-bean name="contactForm" type="com.blah.blah.ContactForm"/> > > <form-bean name="addressForm" type="com. blah.blah.AddressForm"/> > <form-bean name="phoneForm" type="com. blah.blah.PhoneForm"/> > > > However the result is "Cannot find bean addressForm in scope null". > > If you could point me to some link with information it would be greatly > appreciated. > > TIA > > Joe > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
