Thanks Steve, You've given another good reason not to use frames! I like your error messages! (calling user a muppet!). K. PS I tried to look up your companies web site (www.Infogain.co.uk) but no such server? (because I'm looking for struts work in the UK soon)
--- Steve Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Ta for the response. The reason I'm having to put the ActionErrors object > onto the session is because the site I'm developing is using frames. > Basically, we have an input search window and a results window below it. The > only way I've been able to make this work is by putting the search form, > results form (if any) and errors (again, if any) onto the session when the > search is submitted. My action class then forwards back to the parent window > of the two frames and the jsp for the search and results/errors drag the > data from the session to rebuild the windows. > > This was all working fine without putting errors onto the session when I > could use the meta-equiv tag "Window-target" to target the output jsp > (containing either errors or a set of results) to the results window. > Unfortunately this only seems to work within Netscape and not Mozilla or > IE.... > > What I've done at present is clone the html:errors tag (and associated > class) to create an identical one which checks session scope rather than > request scope. It's nearly working (isn't that always the way!!) - > unfortunately I'm getting some null values coming out around the errors > which I don't yet understand - see below: > null > * Please pick an arrival city you muppet > * Please enter a fare > * Please pick a departure city > null > > If I can sort this out (must be coming from the tag class somewhere) then I > think that may solve my problem. > > However, if anyone knows a cleaner way of doing this (without hacking the > struts taglibs) then please let me know!! > > regards, > steve > > __________________________________ > Steve Earl > > InfoGain Limited > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Bacon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:37 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: ActionErrors > > > Hi Steve, > For the ActionErrors collection, get() returns an iterator which will return > ActionError objects, > not sure but hopefully their toString() will give the message you want. yuk! > > Much better to use <html:errors> tag to display them! > I see the 'errors' tag only gets the collection from the request. > Hava you got a good reason for having the errors in the session? > Keith. > > --- Steve Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone give me a quick tip on how to store and subsequently display an > > ActionErrors object in session scope rather than within the request. > > > > At the moment my Action class copies the ActionErrors from the request to > > the session with: > > sess.setAttribute("org.apache.struts.action.ERROR", > > > > request.getAttribute("org.apache.struts.action.ERROR")); > > > > And I then try to access this from within my jsp with: > > <logic:present name="org.apache.struts.action.ERROR" > > scope="session"> > > <bean:write name="org.apache.struts.action.ERROR" > > scope="session" />' > > </logic:present> > > > > Unfortunately the output I get on the page is: > > org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors@2b3d53' > > > > which seems to be the reference to the ActionErrors object rather than the > > text of an individual error contained within it. > > > > thanks in advance for any help > > > > regards, > > steve > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Steve Earl > > > > InfoGain Limited > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > -- > 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]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
