I haven't been following this thread, but based on the error message you are getting, I would guess that the form definition for messageForm is not setup correctly.
Also, I'm assuming you are using a dyna form, and that if you aren't you have a properly setup form bean class.
Matt
Caroline Jen wrote:
I use the HTML tag <textarea> to make it work. If I use <html:textarea>, I get 'cannot retrieve
definition for form bean null'
--- Jim Barrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Caroline Jen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 12:37 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [SOLVED]Cannot retrieve definition
for form bean null
Hi, I have found the mistake.
The mistake is that <html:textarea> is not a
struts
tag equivalent to HTML <textarea> tag.
Are you sure? How else do you generate a textarea field using struts?
--- Caroline Jen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I experimented a little bit:
1. I changed all struts tags to html tags in my messageForm.jsp and I also excluded the opening <html:form> and closing </html:form> tag.
The action mapping shown below works fine. I
am
able to see the form that I want to display in
the
browser.
<action
path="/MailMessage"
parameter=".message.Form"
type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"/>
2. I then added the opening <html:form> in the beginning of the messageForm.jsp and the closing </html:form> tag at the end of the
messageForm.jsp.
I got the error message 'cannot retrieve definition for form bean null'
3. the <html:form> tag looks like (copied from
my
code):
<html:form action="/message/SendMessage">
4. the action mapping in the struts-config.xml
looks
like (copied from my code):
<action path="/message/SendMessage"
type="org.dhsinfo.message.SendMessage"
name="messageForm"
scope="request"
validate="false"
input=".message.Form">
<forward
name="success"
path="/confirmation/messageForwarded.jsp"/>
</action>
5. I have not yet prepared the SendMessage.java
in
the AppRoot/org/dhsinfo/message folder yet.
What could be the cause of the problem?
--- Jim Barrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Caroline Jen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 10:54 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [HELP]Cannot retrieve
definition
for
form bean null
Yes, I copied and pasted the code. I did
not
type
those code while composing my request for
help
message
on the struts-user forum.
Okay then you have a problem in the way your
action
is declared. You need to also declare the
form
being used with that action. See the
documentation
for details.
--- Jim Barrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Caroline Jen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HELP]Cannot retrieve
definition
for
form
bean null
Hi, it is me again.
I still have problem with displaying my
JSP.
This
time, the error message is:
'[ServletException
in:/frame/content/messageForm.jsp]
Cannot retrieve definition for form bean
null'
1. I click on this link:
<html:link action="/MailMessage">Send Message</html:link>
2. the action mapping in
struts-config.xml
is:
<action
path="/MailMessage"
parameter=".message.Form"
type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"/>
You need to look here for the problem.
Assuming
you
copied and pasted this.
What am I missing this time?
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