A while back there was a good discussion going about the best practice for repopulating lists that a JSP form needs after validation returns false and you need to be returned to the initial JSP form.
The problem of course is if you have an options collection that is not in session or application scope, you some how need to have this collection repopulated. Popular belief seems to be to not do this in the reset method of an ActionForm (or any of it's sub classes). I really liked Robert Taylor's solution of setting the input attribute in your config file to be that of the action that sets up your form, so that if validation fails you form collections are reset. The problem, though, I'm running into with that approach is that what if your setUp action also is used to set fields in the ActionForm? You will end up reseting anything the user submitted for those fields. Is there a good work around to this problem? or other suggestions of where/when to repopulate lists after validation? -- Rick Reumann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
