Hmm,
I've never tried using lazy inside a standard ActionForm, the ones that I
have work inside of
a DynaValidatorActionFom (say that 3 times fast). Don't feel like writing a
reset method? you are
getting old Rick.
On Nov 30, 2007 7:17 PM, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I swore I used to be able to do this stuff... maybe it's Friday thing, but
> regardless I'm blanking on out on what I'm doing wrong with this...
>
> I have an ActionForm that has one property right now:
> private LazyDynaBean dynaBean = new LazyDynaMap();
>
> My goal is to be able to populate this DynaBean with any level of nested
> DynaMaps and have everything populate correctly using Request scope on my
> form. (Not shown here but an 'answer' as a map value can end up being
> another Map and so on - nested to any level.)
>
> I'm currently having trouble defining the property name correctly. Here is
> a
> summary
>
> Not working:
> <html:text name="myForm" property="dynaBean.map
> (question_1).map(answerString)"/>
>
> Error:
> Invalid argument looking up property:
> "dynaBean.map(question_1).map(answerString)"
> of bean: "myForm"
>
> Working fine:
> <c:out value="${myForm.dynaBean.map['question_1'].map['answerString']}/>
>
>
> I'm populating in my Action before the form as:
>
> //create some questions
> MyForm mForm = (MyForm)form;
> LazyDynaBean dynaBean1 = mForm.getDynaBean();
> Map map1 = dynaBean1.getMap();
>
> LazyDynaMap questionAnswer = new LazyDynaMap();
> questionAnswer.set("questionText", "Pet's name:");
> questionAnswer.set("answerString", "Fido");
> map1.put("question_1", questionAnswer);
>
>
> I've tried a few different ways defining the text field property all with
> no
> luck at the moment. What am I doing wrong? (I know I could also use a
> DynaActionForm defined in my struts-config, but this should work as well
> with a DynaBean in a standard ActionForm. I typically don't like using
> DynaActionForm because I end up usually having to create a reset method
> anyway so once I do that I might as well code the properties in that
> concrete class.)
>
> --
> Rick
>
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