That is what we are doing now. It goes through a controller to the
database, but we are using the validator and when an error occurs, the form
does not go to the Action class and the helper methods are not called and
as a result, the drop downs are empty.
Steve
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The Action class...but the action should be asking a helper object for a
list of whatever goes in your drop down. It shouldn't know about the
database directly. So you might have in your action.execute():
List list = StateHelper.getStateList();
// put list in your form
Dave
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>Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:13:35 -0500
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>All,
>
>My team is currently at loggerheads about the correct place to put the
>database calls that are prepopulating our drop downs. We can not decide if
>they should be in the ActionForm or in the Action class. We are trying to
>stick them in the validate method in the ActionForm to make sure they are
>always called in instances where the form does not get to the action class
>(i.e. validation fails). But is this the correct way? I am thinking this
is
>nothing new. What is the correct way to initialize drop downs?
>And then what about closing the database connection?
>
>I would much appreciate any help. It would make our Friday alot smoother.
>
>Steve
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