So the execution DOES go straight to the action class, and you have to
manually provide the calls to the Intake service, etc?
If I'm reading this correctly, there is *no* middle man class between
the form submission and the call to the action class. Is that correct?
Thanks
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 11:12, Jeffery Painter wrote:
> If you are using the Intake service, then you must use the intake tool
> within your action class for validation. It doesn't happen automatically
> per se.
>
> 1. login
> 2. page request made
> 3. intake tool used in .vm to populate field names and default values if
> any, if an exception is thrown in the action class, the intake tool
> can store user's submitted results so they don't have to retype them
> when making corrections
> 4. action class called from form submit
> 5. action class method asks intake tool for validation of your group
> -> you handle where to send the user after this.
>
>
> action class code to use intake tool:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> public void doInsert(RunData data, Context context) throws Exception
> {
> // Test for valid intake data
> IntakeTool intake = (IntakeTool) context.get("intake");
> if ( !intake.isAllValid() ) {
> log.info("Intake has found an error with user data");
> return;
> } else
> {
> try
> {
> // get the "Note" Group
> Note note = new Note();
> Group group = intake.get("Note", IntakeTool.DEFAULT_KEY);
> group.setProperties (note);
> // now note is properly populated with the form data
>
>
> // save the entry
> note.setNew( true );
> note.save();
>
>
> /*
> * now we must clear the intake group or the data
> * will again repopulate the next call to this form
> * which we don't want in this case
> */
> intake.remove( group );
> }
> catch ( Exception e ) {
> log.error("data exception for inserting a new note occured: " +
> e.toString() );
> data.setMessage("An error has occured when attempting to insert a
> new note: " +
> e.toString() );
> }
> }
> }
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> HTH,
> Jeff Painter
>
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Ryan Gantt wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been wading through pages and pages of the scattered documentation
> > for Turbine (with Velocity), and while there are some things that make
> > so much sense, there are still aspects of the application that baffle
> > me.
> >
> > My biggest question at this point is: What is actual flow of execution
> > for Turbine once a user submits a form? I'm running the intake service
> > on the forms, so I don't know if it hits Intake first or goes directly
> > to my action class.
> >
> > All I know is that I set the action of the form, the user submits, and
> > it eventually ends up hitting the Action class with the specified submit
> > method.
> >
> > Can anyone clear this up for me or point me to some documentation that
> > will?
> >
> > Thank you very much
> >
> > P.S. Sorry if this is a double-post -- I sent the e-mail once and then realized I
> > wasn't properly signed up for the list.
> >
>
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