I would like to hear what is good practice for prepopulating forms. For example, I want to create a Map with options to populate a select with, and this needs to be done before validation but also after failed validation before the form is redisplayed.
Right now I am creating the map in the constructor of the action class but I wonder how to handle possible errors here, for example when a required database connection fails. Is there a method similar to execute() that I could overwrite which is called before validation? I tried to overwrite input() which works fine when the form is initially displayed but input() does not seem to be called after validation failed and the form is redisplayed. Or should I just store the map in the session and reuse it for subsequent requests? Or can/should I change the scope of the action to session? Sorry for these beginner's questions but I would like to do it the right way from the start :-) Torsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
