In your execute method, instantiate a new ActionForm for Y, populate it, and put it in the request using request.setAttribute, assuming you are using request scope, that is.
-Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 1:34 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Filling data in the select tags Hi there, But how do you get an ActionForm to populate? If I'm on page X, trying to get to page Y, I would need the ActionForm for Y, and all I have in my execute method is the ActionForm for X. Mike ---- Mike Boucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edgil Associates www.edgil.com "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive!" "Robert Nocera" To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: llc.com> Subject: RE: Filling data in the select tags 01/19/2004 12:37 PM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" The ActionForm is also used to display data on the JSP, so the method that Andrew describes is a good way to go about it. When the user requests to go to a page, make sure that request is to an action and not directly to a jsp. As Andrew mentioned he has done, I have also moved from using separate beans to display data to using the ActionForm to hold the display data. If you consider the ActionForm as just a piece of the view, it makes perfect sense. The only time I go outside the ActionForm is when I need to display a list of items, say for a dropdown selection, in that case I'll just set the list in the request separately. -Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:43 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Filling data in the select tags Hi folks, I'm also new to struts, and setting any fields before the page is displayed is something that I'm having trouble with. Here's a few things I need to do. 1) A user logs in to the application. I need to display the login name on every page of the application. 2) After one page, some processing is performed, and a result code is displayed to the user on the subsequent page. How do I get this data to display on my page? Below, Andrew says that you can put the info in the actionForm, which is where it makes sense to me to have it. But I can't figure out how to even do that. It would make sense to populate an actionForm and send it to the request, but everything I've seen suggests that the actionForm is created upon submit, and not used for input. I'm just horribly confused... Thanx for any help. Mike ---- Mike Boucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edgil Associates www.edgil.com "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive!" "Andrew Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dnode.com> cc: Subject: RE: Filling data in the select tags 01/19/2004 07:33 AM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" You would look up thge information (form the db or whatever) in an Action that precedes the view. This (setup) action obtains all the necessary dynamic info that the view (JSP) will need to render the view with, it then forwards to the view page. As you say, you have several options for where to put the info. You could store it directly in request attributes, your could put it all together in a bean in the request, or you could add it to the actionForm. Speaking for myself these days I find myself gravitating towards using the actionform for this sort of thing (I used to keep it quite seperate but nowdays am favouring the opposite point of view!) thinking of the the actionform, not so much as a mere input buffer, but more as a representation of the UI state for that page. One could nest the the ui info in a bean in the actionform to clearly delineate it from the input properties (and perhaps build safegaurds into the setter so it can be called by processPopulate!) Id be interested to hear what other members of the list have to say about best practice in this. Using the session has the advantage that you would only need to go through the setup action once so for things like wizards this can be useful. (Storing in the form, and having the form in session gives same effect of course, plus the advantage that you can change the scope of the lot from a single attribute in struts-config!) -----Original Message----- From: Florin Pop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 19 January 2004 20:12 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Filling data in the select tags Hi there, I am new to Struts and I am wondering how can I handle the following situation: I have a form where I have some fields for entering user data. Some of the fields are combo boxes (<select> in html), for example a list of countries. My question is how can I fill the data in the countries combobox? Where should I store the data required for filling the combo? In the ActionForm or should I put it into another bean which is stored in the session or in the request? where should I fill the list with the countries in an Action class? 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