Are you using struts html tags to write the rest of your form? --- "Matthew J. Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry I am so lost today! > > Now...here is the problem I am having. > > When a user goes to http://localhost:8888/search.do > > From my understanding this will call my SearchAction class as specified in > my struts-config.xml file: > > <form-beans> > <form-bean name="strainSearchForm" > type="StrainSearchForm"/> > </form-beans> > > <action-mappings> > <action path="/search" > type="SearchAction" > scope="session"> > <forward name="success" path="/search.jsp"/> > <forward name="failure" path="/appError.jsp"/> > </action> > > <action path = "/searchResults" > type = "SearchResultsAction" > name = "strainSearchForm" > validate = "true" > input = "/search.do"> > <forward name="success" path="/searchResults.jsp"/> > <forward name="failure" path="/search.do"/> > <forward name="error" path="/appError.jsp"/> > </action> > </action-mappings> > > and if all is well, forward to search.jsp to diplay my search screen (not my > search results). > > From the search screen, when the user clicks Search searchResults.do (not > search.do) is invoked, strainSearchForm.validate() gets called and then my > SearchResultsAction.execute() method. If the strainSearchForm.validate() > returns an error, the error is displayed on the screen, but the values that > the user types are lost so they have to retype in everything. How do I get > the values to already be filled in? If I put them in session scope, will I > have to clear the values later (when they start a new search)? Also, I > would like to do the same thing if no results are returned in my > SearchResultsAction class - how do I do this as well? (On a side note, my > strainSearchForm.reste() method is empty - should it be?) Is my config file > wrong? Am I not doing something correctly? > > Again, should I just have 1 action class or is having multiple action > classes like this ok? What is the best practice or approach here? > > Matt >
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