Thanks for the help. Are you suggesting, in other words, to have a separate Action that retrieves the data to populate the select box, that is executed prior to the ActionForm?
Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurie Harper > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:45 PM > To: user@struts.apache.org > Subject: Re: Populating a select box from a database > > Rob Turknett wrote: > > I want to populate a select element with items from a database. The > items > > can be retrieved by making calls to an API that retrieves data from the > > database. These API methods may throw exceptions if the database is > > inaccessible, or if the user is not logged in. The items only need to be > > retrieved once per session, and should therefore be cached in the user's > > session. > > > > What is the best way to do this in Struts? Where should I make the calls > to > > retrieve the list items? If I do this in the ActionForm, I am not sure > what > > to do if an exception is thrown (for instance, if the user is not logged > in, > > how to forward to the login page). > > > > I've looked around for information about how to do this, but haven't > found > > much. Any help or pointers to resources would be greatly appreciated. > > You want to do it in the Action instead of the ActionForm. You can > catch/handle any exceptions you want to and forward as appropriate, or > let the exception propogate and use declarative exception handling to > serve the appropriate page. > > HTH, > > L. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
