Wow, you've got good timing, because someone is calling for this very feature in FormDef, patch provided: https://formdef.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2
The quick answer to your question is "no". FormDef doesn't meddle with how Struts populates the form. It's more of a utility class you call in your Action. The approach the patch takes is to use subclass DynaActionForm to override reset() so the checkbox fields can be reset to false. My reservation with this approach is, the patch targets only DynaActionForm. We'd have to apply the same thing for the five or six other dyna forms. I brought this up on the dev list http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-dev&m=112629799128003&w=2 but the issue didn't get anybody's attention. I think this problem is best solved on the Struts core. Maybe we can do something like this when configuring forms: <form-bean name="MyForm" type="org.apache.struts.action.DynaActionForm"> <form-property name="firstName" type="java.lang.String" /> <form-property name="lastName" type="java.lang.String" /> <form-property name="someFlag" type="java.lang.String" initial="false" reset="true"/> </form-bean> I'll bring it up again and see what happens. Hubert On 10/12/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If Struts is about community and bringing people and Struts-related > tools together, not about one particular product anymore, then I'd ask > this question right here. > > The question is inspired by katre's interest in checkboxes inside > dynaforms. I guess, there should be no problem with request-scoped > dynaforms, but session-scoped forms need to clear their > checkbox-related fields right before a form is populated. > > Hubert, is it possible to add a feature in FormDef, which would allow to: > * either clear all boolean fields when request comes; > * or to clean only selected fields; > * to choose, when to do the cleaning: for all types of requests, > or for particular ones, like either POST or GET. > > Something like this: > > <form name="sampleForm" beanType="com.my.dto.SampleBean"> > <field property="contactMe" > getter="getContactMe" > setter="toggleContactMe" > reset="POST, GET"/> <=== Can be just "POST"; resets value to false > </form> > > Currently, I need to clean the booleans for POST request only, this is > when input comes. I do not need to clean form on GET, this is when the > form is just displayed. > > I would like to start using FormDef in my project. > > Michael J. > > -- > Struts Dialogs > http://struts.sourceforge.net/strutsdialogs > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
