OK, I'm climbing up the walls trying to make Struts populate a map-backed
action form. This should be a simple task but I cannot get it to f*&king work
and it is driving me insane... The reset method is called before the form is
first displayed and the resulting jsp is populated with the value set in the
reset method, i.e. it's accessing the map correctly. However, when the form is
submitted the reset is called again but the form bean is not populated from the
request before it gets to the action...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa....
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Action Form class
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
public class StrutsTestForm extends ActionForm {
private Map things = new HashMap();
public void setThing(String key, String value) {
things.put(key, value);
}
public Object getThing(String key) {
return things.get(key);
}
public void reset(
ActionMapping arg0,
HttpServletRequest arg1) {
setThing("name", "test");
System.out.println("reset called");
}
}
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form jsp
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Employee Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Employee Form</h1>
<html:form action="sta" focus="name" method="get">
<table>
<tr>
<td >Name:</td>
<td><html:text property="thing(name)"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Age:</td>
<td><html:text property="thing(age)"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
<html:submit>Submit</html:submit>
</html:form>
</body>
</html>
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Action class
package com.prytaniagroup.www;
import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
//import org.apache.commons.
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
public final class StrutsTestAction extends Action {
public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,
ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws Exception {
StrutsTestForm strutsTestForm = (StrutsTestForm)form;
System.out.println((String)strutsTestForm.getThing("name"));
System.out.println((String)strutsTestForm.getThing("age"));
return (mapping.findForward("success"));
}
}
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extracts from strusts-config.xml
<form-beans>
<form-bean
name="StrutsTestForm"
type="com.prytaniagroup.www.StrutsTestForm"/>
</form-beans>
<action-mappings>
<action
path="/setupstrutstestform"
forward="/strutstestform.jsp"/>
<action
path="/sta"
type="com.prytaniagroup.www.StrutsTestAction"
name="StrutsTestForm"
scope="request"
validate="false">
<forward name="success" path="/confirmation.jsp"/>
</action>
</action-mappings>
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