Wait a minute. Is this the current setup?
Action-A (does stuff, preps form-B for page-B)
--> Forward to Page-B
--> User does stuff and submits
--> Validation of form-B fails
--> Page-B re-displayed but with empty <select>s?
Hard to believe! I say so because the population of the selects is done by the
business logic invoked by Action-A which is no longer in the picture.
All that your validate should be doing is *test* the data and set ActionErrors if
necessary. Make sure you aren't wiping out your collections.
Sri
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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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>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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