Why not put the ID as a hidden field on the form too, so you SAVE action can read it from the request and update the record with the ID ? It's not hard at all.
J On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:48:45 +1000 "Murray Collingwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks > > Getting back to some operational questions... > > I want to edit some fields on a record in my database. I have a form bean > which > contains all of these fields plus a bunch of other fields that I won't be > needing on the > edit form. One of the fields I don't update is the ID property, it is my > PRIMARY KEY > and shouldn't be edited. > > So I create my DataEditForm action, my DataEdit.jsp and my DataEditSave > action. > > DataEditForm action retrieves the record (by ID, say "27") from the database > and > populates my form bean, saving it as a request attribute. > > DataEdit.jsp displays just one text field from this bean (the current value > of the field is > displayed in this textbox) and I can edit it quite normally. > > DataEditSave action receives the form after editing but fails to update the > record as the > ID value now reflects "0" instead of "27". > > It seems to me that my DataEdit.jsp is dealing with 2 form beans, a pre-edit > version that > contains all of the data and a post-edit version that only contains the > information from > the html form. > > I know I could create "html:hidden" tags for all of the other fields, however > this does > seem a little arcane. I'm wondering if there is another option such as the > form bean > being saved pre-edit and restored post-edit and the fields from the html form > then being > updated again my form bean before being passed to my DataEditSave action? > This > would allow all of the unused fields to retain their true values. > > I guess pushing the form bean into the session would do this, but session > variables for a > request level function is probably not recommended. > > Looking forward to learning... > > Kind regards > mc > > > FOCUS Computing > Mob: 0415 24 26 24 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.focus-computing.com.au > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.21/96 - Release Date: 10/09/2005 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
