I would think so. I'm not as familiar with the internals of BeanUtils as I'd like to be, but since your form is in request scope, that means it'll create a new instance upon submission. From that, it'll call getDependent(). If that returns null, I'm not sure what BeanUtils would do. I'd bet it'd just throw an error, and if I had time I'd like to see if I can win that bet.
Hubert On 6/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this the only way to do it ? > I have always never coded anything additional in the getter/setter > methods. > > - Glenn > > > > > Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 07/06/2005 05:42 PM > Please respond to > "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org> > > > To > Struts Users Mailing List <user@struts.apache.org> > cc > > Subject > Re: How to get posted data into a nested object ? > > > > > > > It's not clear within your error at which point the error is > occurring. The problem could be that when BeanUtils tries to populate > the firstName field of the dependent bean, dependent is null. Maybe > you need to modify your form so that getDependent() always returns a > valid DependentVO object, instantiating one as needed. > > Hubert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
