Re: Why the 'initial' in the form-bean Does Not Automatically Populate the Form?

[Bill Siggelkow]

When you say "without" threadForm do you mean that you are not 
specifying the "name" attribute on the mapping? If yes, it means that 
Struts doesn't know to associate the form with the action. If no, then 
did you try calling the "initialize" method on the DynaActionForm?

Caroline Jen wrote:
The form-bean in my struts-config.xml is specified
like this:
<form-bean
name="threadForm"
type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm">
   <form-property
      name="sort"
      initial="thread_last_post_date"
      type="java.lang.String"/>
   <form-property
      name="order"
      initial="DESC"
      type="java.lang.String"/>
</form-bean>
My servlet extends Action has the following code:
  DynaActionForm initForm = ( DynaActionForm )form;
  String sort = ( String )initForm.get( "sort" );
  String order = ( String )initForm.get( "order" );
The action mapping for this action is like:
    <action
        roles="administrator,editor,contributor"
        path="/message/ListThreads"
        type="org.MyOrg.MyProj.message.ListThreads"
        name="threadForm"
        scope="request"
        validate="false">
       <forward
            name="success"
            path=".thread.Form"/>
    </action>
If I call the action with the threadForm submitted,
the application works fine.
If I call the action "without" the threadForm, the
server cannot get the 'initial' in the form-bean.
Something must be missing because the 'initial' should
automatically populate the form if the server cannot
find a form.
I really hope that someone could spot the error. 
Thanks.


            
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