Put a hidden text field at the *top* of your form so it rewinds
first. Put the unique ID of your persistent object there.
Bind that field do a property on your form.
In that property's setter method, load your object.
--- Pat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Diephouse
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 12:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Database Update Cycle
>
> Howdy,
> I'm using T4 and a bit confused about how to create update screens. Let
> me explain. I have a User class which I pull from the database. I have a
> form which updates to properties (of many) on the User object: login and
> password.
>
> When I first click on "edit user" I have a edit() function which
> populates MyPage.user from the database. I have a save() method which
> is triggered by a button on the edit form. When I click save() I want to
> pull the User from the DB and then have the login/password fields
> updated on that User object. But Tapestry always wants to create the
> User object itself via ognl it seems.
>
> How can I get it from the DB on the update?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Dan
>
>
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