You raise an interesting point about the name attribute though... I know I can just leave it out, and then I'll be responsible for instantiating the ActionForm and putting it in request to return to the view (which is what our homegrown framework does). I was thinking that I would let Struts instantiate it for me, and send it to the view for me, then I can remove some code that would at that point be superfolous. But, your point is a good one: since the code is doing it already, I can just NOT specify an ActionForm for the Actions, then it wouldn't matter what class I extend them from. That would do the trick.
But, I still at some future point would have to go back into struts-config.xml and put the name attribute back in becuase presumably I'm going to want to do that eventually (and I in fact do). So, although what you point out is a solution I can use, I'd still like to know if there is a way I can get the benefit of Struts handling the creation of the ActionForm and the passing it to the view for me WITHOUT having it auto-populate it on the way in. That's still i think the ideal situation for me, if it's possible, so the question still stands.
From: "Amleto Di Salle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: R: Turning OFF auto form population? Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 19:59:16 +0200
Hi, but have you used in the action tag inside the "struts-config.xml" the "name" attribute?
Anyway, if I understood correctly, you can always extend the RequestProcessor class and override the processPopulate(...) method.
Furthermore, you have to configure struts to use the extended RequestProcessor version.
BR /Amleto
-----Messaggio originale----- Da: None None [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: mercoledì 19 maggio 2004 19.33 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Turning OFF auto form population?
Hello all... Is it possible to turn OFF Struts auto-populating an ActionForm with the paramters from the client?
The reason I ask is that I'm converting a non-Struts app over, and in this app, because it was using a homegrown framework, we have value object classes which are basically exactly what ActionForms are, except that they are NOT auto-popualated. The problem is that some of the getter and setter method names may not match the input parameters, and rather than trying to go through it all and change the names to match (which I can do as a later step), I'd like to turn off the auto-populate function if I can.
If I can't, I can just leave these classes as-is and just have them not extend ActionForm... since they are always manually dealt with, that's not a problem, but if I can make make them extend ActionForm and turn off the auto-populate, then I can just swing back around in a later iteration and make the changes I need to then.
Thanks all!
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