I am not very clear what is the issue ur facing. For populating the dropdowns , u cld hit DB in the action and polulate apropriate DTO and put it in request. U cld then use the values from the DTO for populating the dropdowns. Next on form submission u cld persist the new values to DB in the submit action. Can u elaborate on the issue u r facing
Thanks, Satish -----Original Message----- From: alu, artifex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:02 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: advice needed: view+form needs data from an action i've ran into an problem using struts or, maybe, it's me not understanding the mvc concept correctly: the user has to fill out a form which contains several drop-down-boxes filled with possible values from a database. so i need an preceding action to gather the data from the database. if the form is submitted it's submitted to a different action which should persist the user's inputs. however, if the user enters semantically incorrect data he should be redirected back to the input page - loosing the data collected from the database in the previous action. i suppose there is no way solving this issue using form validation via the validate() method of the actionform. another possible way would be that the second action validates the form (which would render the validate method of the action form useless in most cases) and, if the validation fails, gathers the database records again and forwards it to the input page. so i'd have to actions doing virtually the same. the third way i figured out is to not use pre-populated input pages at all. i could use javascript popups to populate certain fields. but i don't want to use popups. i'm pretty sure that this is not a uncommon issue and hopefully someone figured out a clever way to deal with this problem. thanks in advance art --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
