Hello,
Even if Struts is passing a true reference to the form bean that is
stored in the session, doing that reassignment inside the dispatch
method won't do what you want.
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public ActionForward setUpForNew(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm
form, ...{
form = new MyForm();
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That reassignment is just reassigning the local pointer to the new form
instance, disconnecting it from the form instance in the session. To do
what you want i think you would need to:
MyForm newForm = new MyForm();
session.setAttribute("nameOfMyFormInActionTag");
Right? that would replace the instance in the session with the new
instance you just created.
Dave
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 19:07 -0400, Rick Reumann wrote:
> I haven't used Session scope for my ActionForms in a lonnnngggg time,
> but now I need to for a particular scenario.
>
> The problem I'm running into is imagine you click on a link to "Create
> New" - in which case, after you pass through your Action, you'd go to
> a page backed by the session-scoped ActionForm. If the ActionForm has
> stuff already in it, form say an edit process done earlier, this will
> show up on your form which isn't what you want in a "create new"
> sencario. To avoid this on the "new" situations I thought I could just
> hava a setUpForNew(..) dispatch method and do something like...
>
> public ActionForward setUpForNew(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, ...{
> form = new MyForm();
> //maybe set a few things before I leave
> //return
> }
>
> Then I mistakingly thought when I return to my JSP, the backing
> ActionForm would be pointing to this new ActionForm instance and all
> my properties would be set to their defaults.
>
> However, that above apparently is not working and I think I remember
> way back running into this and I think I remember the problem maybe
> being related to that the form bean referenced in my action method
> isn't really a true reference to the one that is actually in Session
> scope .. I think Struts does some funky stuff behind the scenes..
> can't remember all the details.
>
> So for those of you that use Session scope a lot, what is the easiest
> way to get a 'blank reset' form? Obviously I could go and reset every
> single property in the reset method and call that from my Action, but
> that seems like a lot of work and could get sloppy and introduce
> errors (later on you forget to reset a prop there etc).
>
> Am I totally missing something simple to accomplish what I want?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Rick
>
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