Hello, Your CreateMessageAction class should extend DispatchAction class, and then you should be able to accomplish your requirement.
See this link: http://struts.apache.org/api/org/apache/struts/actions/DispatchAction.html You can have different methods in your DispatchAction class like "get", "submit" etc. So, you might have something like this: public final ActionForward get( ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { { // retrieve collection for JSP and store it in the request. } public final ActionForward submit( ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { { // do stuff that you do now in your CreateMessageAction } You would also need to configure your struts-config.xml accordingly. eg. you might have: <action path="/createMessage" type="CreateMessageAction" name="createMessageForm" scope="request" input="create.jsp" validate="true" parameter="method"> <forward name="get" path="/WEB-INF/pages/create.jsp"/> <forward name="submit" path="/WEB-INF/pages/result.jsp"/> </action> HTH, Shyam > Hello, > > I have a jsp (create.jsp), a form-bean > (CreateMessageForm.java), and an action > (CreateMessageAction.java). > > Currently, the user inputs their info into > create.jsp, hits 'submit', and the action gets the > info from the form-bean > and does stuff with it. Instead, I would like to > get some information( collections) from a database > and populate "create.jsp" with them. So I would like > to: > > - get a collection from the database > - put this collection into the request > - populate create.jsp from the request object > - let the user edit the form (including the > pre-populated parts) > - hit submit > - CreateMessageAction gets info from form-bean and > does stuff... > > Do I have to write a separate Action class for > putting the collection (from database) into the > request object? Or can I somehow incorporate this > into my current CreateMessageAction class ? > > please help, > Anna Kerekes > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
