The LookupDispatchAction allows you to specify several JSP pages or buttons
on
one page to use single action mapping to achieve CRUD operations. An example
of such action mapping would look like the following:
<action
path="/FooCRUDOperation"
type="com.myco.editors.FooAction"
name="FooForm"
scope="request"
input="/FooCRUDInput.do"
parameter="dispatchAction">
<forward name="edit" path=".editor.foo.Update"/>
<forward name="add" path=".editor.fooCreate"/>
<forward name="view" path=".editor.fooView"/>
<forward name="top" path=".editor.fooTop"/>
</action>
If you need to find/add/delete/update schools for a system, it is worth
using the class. For
your case, a simple way would go like this:
1) Process the 'Find School' button in the first action and populate
the found schools into a form bean for the selectSchool.jsp. Then
forward to the selectSchool.jsp.
2) The form bean for the selectSchool.jsp should also hold user
selected school (name and address). In its action class, you copy the
selected school (name and address) to the first form bean's attributes.
Then you forward to the first JSP page (the first form bean should
be session scoped).
Would this work for you?
Jing
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nalini Pal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:15 AM
Subject: LookupDispatchAction
Not sure how best to set this up and indeed, if it is possible so any advice
would be appreciated.
I have a an ActionForm called RegisterForm where a new user to enter their
details (name, email, school name and school address) or an existing
registered user to edit these fields.
Alongside the 'school address' field I have a submit button, 'Find School'
that allows a user to enter part of the school name or address and hit this
'FindSchool' button which then goes off to another page (selectSchool.jsp)
that displays a list of matching schools. The user then clicks on their
chosen school on selectSchool.jsp and is then returned to the RegisterForm
with the 'school name' and 'school address' fields populated.
I have been advised to use a LookupDispatchAction, as a JSP alternative to
Javascript. Has anyone used it and/ or have an example illustrating its use?
Many Thanks
Nalini
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