Thanks Viktar, I am planning to use DispatchAction with which we can use unspecified() method to populate the ActionForm properties. But how to put these properties in JSP controls ?
Regards, Nitin --- Viktar Duzh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack, > > I suppose you are not right. There is no problem of > using ordinary <form> > HTML tag in a plain JSP. But that form must have a > correct url and names of > the input elements within the page to make the > framework pick up right > action and populate form bean respectively. > > I will give a example. > > 1. Suppose you have the following in your config > file: > > <action path="/save-customer" > type="com.action.SaveAction" > name="CustomerForm"> > <forward name="sucess" > path="/SavePage.jsp"/> > </action> > > 2. Your Customer.jsp would be: > ... > <form action="save-customer.do"> > <input type="text" name="customerName" ... /> > <input type="submit" ... /> > </form> > > 3. Your CustomerForm is expected to have the > customerName property. > > Thus, when a user click on the submit button the > request comes in and the > struts tries to find an action with "save-customer" > path. Having found it, > it instantiates the CustomerForm object and then > tries to populate the > properties of the bean based on HTT request > parameters (customerName here). > In the end, your class action class has acess to the > parameters submitted by > the ordinary HTML form. > > But here is one thing. Customer.jsp usually shows > some data. So a deveoper > should manually set the value of the form's fields. > I means it should get a > bean that holds the customer data and set the value > of the customerName > field by some other tag. > > To make clear why some people are trying to do it. > An application would be > built on the struts framework plus jstl tags. Using > the jstls tags is taken > because struts html tags might not cover some > attributes of some html > elements. > > Regards, > > -- Viktar > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dakota Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" > <user@struts.apache.org> > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 9:56 AM > Subject: Re: using Taglibs > > > > You need to use <html:form>, so the answer is that > you have to use the > > taglibs unless you do some serious coding changes > to the framework. > > Why do you want to use the form but not the > taglibs? If you just want > > to do that, build your own ActionForm with your > own autopopulation > > classes, etc.? > > > > What you are trying to do or why is not clear. > > > > Sounds like you are a bit unacquainted with Struts > and I would > > recommend that you take a closer look before > deciding what you want to > > do. > > > > Jack > > > > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:46:40 -0800 (PST), nitin > dubey > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Can we use struts without using its taglibs ? We > will > >> just write plain JSPs. If yes how do we get the > >> values into and from our ActionForms ? > >> > >> regards, > >> > >> Nitin > >> > >> __________________________________ > >> Do you Yahoo!? > >> Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources > site! > >> http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make > it float on its back." > > ~Dakota Jack~ > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
