FYI: A form instance is always created by the ActionServlet/RequestProcessor before the execute method is called (assuming your struts-config has one mapped). Hence, the reason why a Form is part of the execute signature in the Action class and why you are able to cast the Form.
Brandon Goodin -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Goodin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 12:55 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: first time action Something sounds fairly wrong with your design. What you are doing is a common thing. You shouldn't have to do javascrtipt to accomplish it. Could you please post your code. It seems that you are confusing the function of the various classes. For example, "FormBean" and "ActionForm" are two terms for the same thing. Please post the jsp/Action/and ActionForm classes. I should be able to determine what you are doing from that. Brandon Goodin -----Original Message----- From: Alawadhi, Mona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 12:41 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: first time action Brandon, The values are standard for all. I've tried including the call for setPageDefaults() in the constructor of the ActionForm class, but it didn't work. My guess is that the "form" is not created/passed yet since the 'execute' method comes after the constructor. I tried to create a FormBean object in the ActionForm constructor, but it didn't work. it doesn't recognize it. and, of course, I cannot include the setPageDefaults() in the FormBean constructor, since the FormBean object gets created every time the Action is called, so, it brings us back to the same problem. I'm thinking now to use a form.submit() method in javascript. I am not sure how to go about that, though, since I do not know javascript. Can you, or anyone from the group help me? I am to pass one hidden filed (which is the letter), and two other radio-button parameters from my form to the Action. Thank you :o) Mona <------ JavaScript illiterate. -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Goodin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:10 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: first time action I am a little confused. I am not sure where you are getting your default values from. Are they set as a result of client preferences or are they standard for everyone. If they are standard for all, it might be best to define the default values for your ActionForm within the constructor of the ActionForm. That way upon first entry to the page you have the default values set in the ActionForm. After that any form values submitted will be set using the get/set of the ActionForm and replace the defaults. If, on the other hand, the default values are set via a dynamic process. You might consider writting two Actions that use the same ActionForm to accomplish this. Or you could do what I do and use the LookupDispatchAction/DispatchAction's uspecified method upon entry and another method of your choosing when submitting the updated form values. Brandon Goodin -----Original Message----- From: Alawadhi, Mona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:52 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: first time action Hello Brandon, I call "SetPageDefaults" the first time my page loads. In my JSP, there are links for the Action : <href="ActionClass.do?parameter="A"> so, the action gets called again and again. Also, I have different radio buttons along the page to be selected (the defaults are set for those buttons when the page loads first). The problem is that when I click on that link, it re-loads the page, and sets the defaults again. It does not take the new values for the radio buttons(I have three parms in my page). Therefore, I thought there would be some kind of indication whether the page is loading first, in order to include the call for "setPageDefaults" in an if statement and keep my selections when I call the Action again. My Page looks something like this: ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ Select display: o By Contact o By Taxpayer Type: o All o Billing o Business o Contact o Delivery o Mailing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z results (when letter A is chosen): Anderson, K. Arizona, B. ... etc ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ The user can select two values from the two radio buttons, and a letter, which is the param passed in <href>. How would I go about passing those three values to the Action class? Mona -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Goodin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 1:42 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: first time action It would be good to provide a more clear use case. Usually you don't have any methods in your ActionForm than the usual getter/setters, validate and reset. So, I'm not sure what you are asking. Please, be more specific about what you are trying to accomplish. Brandon Goodin -----Original Message----- From: Alawadhi, Mona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:19 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: first time action Hello Everyone, I have some methods in my FormBean that I would want to call only the first time I go through the Action class (load the page). Any ideas? Mona **************************************************************************** * The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. 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