thanks for your reply, perhaps there's something I've haven't understand:
I'd like to display in my select dropdown data that come from a
database... where should I get this data from the DB this should be done
before the call of the getXXX method of the ActionForm when.
Should I use an action where I get data from the DB and forward it to
the action associated with the jsp page containing the form?? is it the
way to do it?
Vincent
Galbreath, Mark wrote:
> It's magic.
>
>
> Seriously, your getters and setters in your ActionForm bean correspond to
> the HTML input fields in your JSP. So if you have a select dropdown in the
> JSP called "state," in some HTML form for collecting personal information
> you could have
>
> private state = "";
>
> public void setState( String state) {
> this.state = state;
> }
>
> public String getState() {
> return state;
> }
>
> in your Action form. In order to make Struts aware of this bean, you must
> declare in your struts-config.xml file and have an action path mapped from
> your JSP to an Action class that will manipulate the bean values that are
> set by Struts:
>
> <form-bean name="PersonalInfoForm"
> type="com.whatever.PersonInfoForm" />
>
> <action path="/personalInfo"
> type="com.whatever.GetPersonalInfoAction"
> name="PersonalInfoForm"
> scope="session"
> validate="true"
> parameter="isNew">
> <forward name="success" path="/personalInfo.jsp" />
> <forward name="error" path="/errors.jsp" />
> </action>
>
> So this associates your bean with your JSP and your ActionClass. When your
> user goes to http://yoursite/personalInfo.do (depending on the mapping in
> your web.xml), personalInfo.jsp will be invoked and the rendered HTML
> displayed. After the user fills out the form and submits (for example, the
> form action is /reviewPersonalInfo which will display everything the user
> just entered), the following action path is invoked:
>
> <action path="/reviewPersonalInfo"
> type="com.whatever.SavePersonalInfoAction"
> name="PersonalInfoForm"
> input="/PersonalInfo.jsp"
> scope="session"
> validate="true"
> parameter="isError">
> <forward name="success" path="/reviewPersonalInfo.jsp" />
> <forward name="error" path="/personalInfo.jsp" />
> </action>
>
> and reviewPersonalInfo.jsp will appear to display the information contained
> in your bean through the use of Struts tags. At this point you can also
> access the bean's state in your Action class through the form object to save
> it to a database or whatever.
>
> Okay?
>
> Mark
>
> (That should have earned me a few [OT/FRIDAY] msgs, eh?)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent Berruchon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:19 AM
>
> Hi, I'm still newie and really confused on how to get HTML form filled
> with struts...
> I want to fill a select input in a form in one of my JSP.
> So I've write an ActionForm Bean with the get and set methods for each
> properties corresponding to an input on the form.
> But I don't know where these "set" methods are (or should) be called to
> fill actionForm properties before the calls to the get methods?
>
> Can someone help us?
>
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