That's an interesting idea; the current value could, in fact, be stored into form data (that's "relatively" secure). Alternately, the password field could be changed to only update its value parameter if the submitted value is non-blank (that's probably more useful).
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Dan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, that was my question. Do you have to create a separate field outside > your bean and then update manually if it hasn't changed? Or is there a way > that the field could be smart enough to store the value in the session or > something and then update the bean value only when the user enters one. > > Dan Adams > Senior Software Engineer > Interactive Factory > p: 617.235.5857 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joachim Van der Auwera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tapestry users" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:57:30 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York > Subject: Re: Use of passwordfield? > > Dan, > > This component does not display the previous value if there is one and > hides the input. This is important as view source would otherwise reveal > the passwords. > > The only thing you need to be careful about is that it will update your > password field in the bean to null when no new value was given by the > user. You probably don't want passwords to be reset like that. > > Kind regards, > Joachim > > Dan Adams wrote: >> To ask a dumb question: what's the use of the passwordfield component since >> it doesn't output a value? I have a 'edit user' page where you have password >> and 'confirm password' fields. When you submit the form it resets the value >> to empty if you don't enter anything. >> >> Dan Adams >> Senior Software Engineer >> Interactive Factory >> p: 617.235.5857 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > > -- > Joachim Van der Auwera > PROGS bvba, progs.be > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator Apache Tapestry and Apache HiveMind --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
