I'm not sure that really solves my problem. What do I put as the "input" for this action? I can't use the same action; whatever attribute I used to indicate that I want to move to the next page would still be in the system, so validation failures would bring me to the next page rather than the same page.
I'm pondering an approach with two actions, a "next page" action which has a "same page" action as its input.
-- Mike
Rodney Paul wrote:
Check out the lookupDispatchAction classes. These classes were designed specifically for Actions which require more than one execute method (in this instance a method for back and next). That is what I have used, and is perfect for use when developing wizard applications.
Cheers Rodney
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Muller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 11 July 2003 8:41 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: best way to build a wizard
It turns out that I can't pass the action into the html:form tag using tiles; that would involve nesting JSP tags. Grr.
I guess my only recourse is to have the open html:form tag in the inserted body and the close html:form tag in the template. Ick.
So now I'm trying to figure out a way to have one one action mapping. Any ideas? Or alternative approaches?
-- Mike
Michael Muller wrote:
My app has a bunch of wizard-style forms. I have one "NextPageAction" Action class, and an separate mapping for each page. The mappings all bind to the same form bean (a DynaValidatorForm) and invoke the "NextPageAction".
I was hoping to have only one action mapping, with a whole bunch of forwards for "page1", "page2", etc. The problem that prevents me from having one action mapping is validation: I need the "input" attribute to redirect me to the correct wizard screen.
So I went back to having lots of mappings. No big deal. Until...
I factored the "next" and "back" buttons into the template. With those buttons, wend the closing "html:form" tag. Makes sense to move the opening "html:form" tag into the template, too, right? Oops, my action is in there.
What do I do?
I could leave the closing tag in the template and the opening tag in the inserted body. Gross.
I could try and pass the action into the template through my tiles-defs. That's kinda kludgy, too.
I'm back to thinking I should have one action mapping. But I don't know how to accomplish this.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Mike
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