Hmmm.... I looked in the example application (editResgistration). I have
similar code, but still doesn't work for me.
Here is snippets of my code:
In struts-config.xml
====================
<form-bean name="personnelForm"
type="blankApp.PersonnelForm"/>
<action path="/getpersonnel"
type="blankApp.PersonnelAction"
name="personnelForm"
scope="request"
validate="false">
In PersonnelAction.java
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public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,
ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws Exception
{
// Extract attributes we will need
Locale locale = getLocale(request);
MessageResources messages = getResources(request);
HttpSession session = request.getSession();
System.out.println("I am in Personnel Action");
PersonnelForm fForm = (PersonnelForm)form;
PersonnelVO personnelVO = new PersonnelVO(); // has 'rank' and
'paygrade' properties
personnelVO.setRank("RANK");
personnelVO.setPaygrade("PG");
PropertyUtils.copyProperties(fForm, personnelVO);
System.out.println(fForm.getRank());
System.out.println(fForm.getPaygrade());
// Forward control to the specified success URI
return (mapping.findForward("success"));
}
And finally here is personnel.jsp
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<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
<html:html locale="true">
<head>
<title><bean:message key="index.title"/></title>
<html:base/>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<html:errors/>
<html:form action="/updaterank" focus="rank">
<table border="0" width="100%">
<h3><center><bean:message key="index.message.getrank"/></center></h3>
<tr>
<th align="right">
<bean:message key="prompt.rank"/>
</th>
<td align="left">
<html:text property="rank" size="16" maxlength="16"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th align="right">
<bean:message key="prompt.paygrade"/>
</th>
<td align="left">
<html:text property="paygrade" size="16" maxlength="16"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">
<html:submit property="submit" value="Submit"/>
</td>
<td align="left">
<html:reset/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</html:form>
</body>
</html:html>
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When I access "/getpersonnel.do" action,
I expect that after my PersonnelAction.execute() function returns and
personnel.jsp is executed, I would see HTML text
controls filled with "RANK" and "PG" values. But they appear blank.....
What am I missing here..??
thanks for all the help..
-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 6:12 PM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: How to get data back from ActionForm to HTML form
> I tried it, and I still don't see Text fields populated in HTML form..
> Does this mean I will have to manually write code to get handle to fForm
> from 'request' and call fForm.getXXX() in my JSP file ??
> I thought html:text property="XXX" should automatically get the matching
> property value from the ActionForm in the similar way it does while
POSTing.
> I must be missing something here...
I had the opposite problem... things were magically appearing in the HTML
form and I couldn't see how. I had started with the example app, and I
finally found the line, which I commented appropriately:
/*
* Magic! This populates all of the ContactForm
* properties with the matching ones in the Contact
*/
PropertyUtils.copyProperties( contactform, contact );
'contact' is my Value Object, and 'contactform' is the [extension of]
ActionForm.
HTH! Take a look at struts-example to see how it works.
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Wendy Smoak
http://sourceforge.net/projects/unidbtags
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