Since you mentioned FormFiles and failed validations, I'd like to share something: It's a pain that you lose the uploaded file if the form validation fails. I decided to make my validation screen do a special message to please upload the files again because form Validation failed IF any files were uploaded. My problem was: how do you detect if files were uploaded? I chose to examine my ActionForm's FormFile fields and count the total bytes. IF it's zero, nothing was uploaded so I won't show the reminder to re-attach the files.
Does anyone have a better method for dealing with losing files on Validation failure? Thanks for any constructive feedback, David -----Original Message----- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:30 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: FormFile not re-populated On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Sharmila Pandith wrote: > Hi, > > I am using FormFile and after it is validated it must be displayed on the > next JSP. However, the field is blank. When I look at the source in IE6, I > see the file name without the directory. But even that is not displayed. > > Any thoughts? Yes, basically, you cannot expect to pre-fill an input field of type "file" (html file upload box with browse button). It is not supported in all browsers and those that do, prompt the user to so they can cancel the field value or the form all-together. You would be better off doing something like this: 1. Show page (with file upload button), and ask the user if they want to upload additional files (radio button or something) 2. If yes, then after that page is processed, show it again, only this time with file listed off to the side (similar to how a summary view of a shopping cart might do) 3. If no, then move along with your wizard. Does that help? > > S P > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- James Mitchell Software Developer / Struts Evangelist http://www.struts-atlanta.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
