RE: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
Why would you want to have an action related to 2 forms. A form typically means a business functionality and an action is the trigger for that business functionality. If you are saying that a single functionality encompasses more than one form then there is problem in the design. I think u shld give a good rethink even before starting the development Thanks, Satish -Original Message- From: Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:21 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action I am unable to find a solution or an alternate way of having multiple forms in one jsp and upon submit one action handling all forms.The jsp will have the forms as follows: html:form %-- first form stuff -- using formA --% html:form %-- second form stuff -- using formB --% /html:form html:form %-- third form stuff -- using formB --% /html:form /html:form How do I indicate to the action that it depends on two forms? Or should I be using nested forms? Which I can't find docs or HOWTO for? I would be thankful for any help? Shedrick - 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]
Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
At 05:50 AM 8/12/2004, you wrote: I am unable to find a solution or an alternate way of having multiple forms in one jsp and upon submit one action handling all forms.The jsp will have the forms as follows: You can have many forms but can submit only one at a time. What are you trying to do? Michael - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote: I am unable to find a solution or an alternate way of having multiple forms in one jsp and upon submit one action handling all forms.The jsp will have the forms as follows: html:form %-- first form stuff -- using formA --% html:form %-- second form stuff -- using formB --% /html:form html:form %-- third form stuff -- using formB --% /html:form /html:form Ok, not trying to be a jerk here, but this shows you didn't even look at a single example built with Struts. There are billion examples now available on Struts and you need to look at least one of those examples. Have you even looked at the struts documentation of the html:form tag http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/struts-html.html#form ? Have you seen an example of where you just saw html:form defined with no other attributes? -- Rick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
Micheal I was trying to submit all three at one time. But you're that is not an option. So, I have to do something like this: first.jsp html:form %-- first form stuff -- using formA --% html:form %-- second form stuff -- using formB --% /html:form html:form %-- third form stuff -- using formB --% /html:form /html:form html:submit/ second.jsp html:form %-- first form stuff -- using formA --% html:form %-- second form stuff -- using formB --% /html:form html:form %-- third form stuff -- using formB --% /html:form /html:form html:submit/ action attribute=formA input=/first.jsp forward name=success path=/second.jsp / /action action attribute=formB input=/second.jsp forward name=success path=/done.jsp / /action thanks, Shed -Original Message- From: Michael McGrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:36 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action At 05:50 AM 8/12/2004, you wrote: I am unable to find a solution or an alternate way of having multiple forms in one jsp and upon submit one action handling all forms.The jsp will have the forms as follows: You can have many forms but can submit only one at a time. What are you trying to do? Michael - 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]
Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote: Micheal I was trying to submit all three at one time. I've been doing Struts for a long time now and have never run across a case where I had to do submit more than one form from one click. You can have as many forms as you want on a page though and you can even have them use the same action class. Why would you need more than one form to submit at the same time? If you needed info from the different forms all in one request it sounds like a case where you would just build a new ActionForm. The ActionForms simply represent the view to the user. You might want to explain more what you are trying to do. Also you can't nest forms in HTML so how can you do what you are trying to do in Struts? Tell us what you are trying to accomplish from a business perspective and I'm sure we could help you with a cleaner solution. -- Rick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
you can submit multiple forms using javascript like document.forms[0].submit(); .. and so on.. keep in mind to have different targets for each forms. - Original Message - From: Rick Reumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:20 PM Subject: Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote: Micheal I was trying to submit all three at one time. I've been doing Struts for a long time now and have never run across a case where I had to do submit more than one form from one click. You can have as many forms as you want on a page though and you can even have them use the same action class. Why would you need more than one form to submit at the same time? If you needed info from the different forms all in one request it sounds like a case where you would just build a new ActionForm. The ActionForms simply represent the view to the user. You might want to explain more what you are trying to do. Also you can't nest forms in HTML so how can you do what you are trying to do in Struts? Tell us what you are trying to accomplish from a business perspective and I'm sure we could help you with a cleaner solution. -- Rick - 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]
Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
ppk123 wrote: you can submit multiple forms using javascript like document.forms[0].submit(); .. and so on.. keep in mind to have different targets for each forms. This is, I think, just going to confuse this guy. Tell us what you want to do, guy! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
ppk123 wrote: you can submit multiple forms using javascript like document.forms[0].submit(); .. and so on.. keep in mind to have different targets for each forms. Yea there are ton of Javascript tricks you can do but usually you want to avoid this kind of stuff if possible. My guess is there is a much simpler solution than multiple form submits. -- Rick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
Rick wrote:
Guys,
This is what I wanted to do without using any javascript.
html:form
%-- first form stuff -- using formA --%
html:text name=formA property=firstName readonly=true /
html:text name=formA property=lastName readonly=true /
html:text name=formA property=homePhone readonly=false /
table
%-- second form stuff -- using formB -- displayed%
th nowrap=nowrapFirst Contact:/th
tdhtml-el:text property=fullName
value=${contact[0].fullName}
readonly=false//td
/table
table
%-- third form stuff -- using formB --%
th nowrap=nowrapFirst Contact:/th
tdhtml-el:text property=fullName
value=${contact[1].fullName}
readonly=false//td
/table
/html:form
html:submit/
I don't understand how to capture both forms in the Action class.
Shed.
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Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
First form has among other things: two attributes of the type formB1 formB2 (with the accessors getFormB1 getFormB2). The fields in the forms are then named : _ formB1.name, formB1.surname _ formB2.name, formB2.surname Don't forget to instanciate in the FormABean the two sub beans. \T, I am unable to find a solution or an alternate way of having multiple forms in one jsp and upon submit one action handling all forms.The jsp will have the forms as follows: html:form %-- first form stuff -- using formA --% html:form %-- second form stuff -- using formB1 --% /html:form html:form %-- third form stuff -- using formB2 --% /html:form /html:form How do I indicate to the action that it depends on two forms? Or should I be using nested forms? Which I can't find docs or HOWTO for? I would be thankful for any help? Shedrick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thomas SMETS rue J. Wytsmanstraat 62 1050 Brussels - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote:
This is what I wanted to do without using any javascript.
html:form
%-- first form stuff -- using formA --%
html:text name=formA property=firstName readonly=true /
html:text name=formA property=lastName readonly=true /
html:text name=formA property=homePhone readonly=false /
table
%-- second form stuff -- using formB -- displayed%
th nowrap=nowrapFirst Contact:/th
tdhtml-el:text property=fullName
value=${contact[0].fullName}
readonly=false//td
/table
table
%-- third form stuff -- using formB --%
th nowrap=nowrapFirst Contact:/th
tdhtml-el:text property=fullName
value=${contact[1].fullName}
readonly=false//td
/table
/html:form
html:submit/
I don't understand how to capture both forms in the Action class.
Wy would you want to? Why don't you just make an ActionForm with the
properties:
firstName
lastName
homePhone
contact1
contact2
Maybe I'm missing something:) Also you do know that html:form will not
work defined like you have it?
Also of course you need your submit button inside the form. Lastly you
have two form fields named the same (fullName) which will end up
submitting a String[] which is probably not what you want. Make one form
and name them contact1 and contact2 and set them before you get to the
form so you don't have to declare the value like you are doing. (You
'usually' want to avoid having to declare the value - it should be set
in the form. There are exceptions - nested forms using JSTL, sometimes
radio or checkboxes - but 99.9 of the time you shouldn't need to define
the value using an html:text tag).
--
Rick
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RE: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
Rick, my apologies for being unclear here, html:text is html-el:text and I am using JSTL to retrieve data and iterate with (c:foreach). There are alot more fields involve here each ActionForm corrolate to a database tables(Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform). I would like the user to be able update fields in multiple tables without binding the table in one very big ActionForm. Does this fit the exception of nested forms using JSTL? Shed Wy would you want to? Why don't you just make an ActionForm with the properties: firstName lastName homePhone contact1 contact2 Maybe I'm missing something:) Also you do know that html:form will not work defined like you have it? Also of course you need your submit button inside the form. Lastly you have two form fields named the same (fullName) which will end up submitting a String[] which is probably not what you want. Make one form and name them contact1 and contact2 and set them before you get to the form so you don't have to declare the value like you are doing. (You 'usually' want to avoid having to declare the value - it should be set in the form. There are exceptions - nested forms using JSTL, sometimes radio or checkboxes - but 99.9 of the time you shouldn't need to define the value using an html:text tag). -- Rick - 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]
RE: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
-Original Message- From: Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:51 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action I am unable to find a solution or an alternate way of having multiple forms in one jsp and upon submit one action handling all forms.The jsp will have the forms as follows: html:form %-- first form stuff -- using formA --% html:form %-- second form stuff -- using formB --% /html:form html:form %-- third form stuff -- using formB --% /html:form /html:form How do I indicate to the action that it depends on two forms? U one form submits to one action. It's not really a struts thing it's an HTTP thing. Or should I be using nested forms? Which I can't find docs or HOWTO for? I would be thankful for any help? Nested forms? Hm... sounds like you're trying to over-engineer something.. what is it you're trying to do? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
-Original Message- From: Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:28 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action Rick, my apologies for being unclear here, html:text is html-el:text and I am using JSTL to retrieve data and iterate with (c:foreach). There are alot more fields involve here each ActionForm corrolate to a database tables(Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform). I would like the user to be able update fields in multiple tables without binding the table in one very big ActionForm. Does this fit the exception of nested forms using JSTL? I don't know.. but what you're trying makes no sense from an engineering point of view... Form objects are not meant to represent tables... they are view only objects... it's up to your action class to then map the view to the database ( or, better, translate the view to 1+ value objects, call your business object which n turns actually handles manipulating the DAO objects), not the other way around. If you follow that, then this entire thread becomes moot, because you're using struts as it was designed to be used. Shed Wy would you want to? Why don't you just make an ActionForm with the properties: firstName lastName homePhone contact1 contact2 Maybe I'm missing something:) Also you do know that html:form will not work defined like you have it? Also of course you need your submit button inside the form. Lastly you have two form fields named the same (fullName) which will end up submitting a String[] which is probably not what you want. Make one form and name them contact1 and contact2 and set them before you get to the form so you don't have to declare the value like you are doing. (You 'usually' want to avoid having to declare the value - it should be set in the form. There are exceptions - nested forms using JSTL, sometimes radio or checkboxes - but 99.9 of the time you shouldn't need to define the value using an html:text tag). -- Rick - 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] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote: Rick, my apologies for being unclear here, html:text is html-el:text and I am using JSTL to retrieve data and iterate with (c:foreach). There are alot more fields involve here each ActionForm corrolate to a database tables(Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform). I would like the user to be able update fields in multiple tables without binding the table in one very big ActionForm. Does this fit the exception of nested forms using JSTL? I understand it was html-el, but that doesn't matter - you should still just use property when you 'can' for text fields ( if iterating over checkboxes and displaying the values of the checkboxes with el, that makes more sense). You shouldn't be worrying about the backend at all from a front end perspective. The role of the front end is to capture and display data so I wouldn't worry about: (Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform). Here's what I do in your case. Imagine the slightly more complex case of updating user information Using your scenario, the set up could be like this: 1) Create an ActionForm that will be used to capture user information: //UserActionForm String id String firstName String lastName String homePhone String contact1 String contact2 2) I'd use a Dispatch Action for the Action class, but since I'm not sure if used them before, I'll assume a regular Action. So Create a GetUserAction and for this example we'll also need an UpdateUserAction (Dispatch really makes this much easier but that's another topic). 3) User might click on a link with an userID and we then need to populate the ActionForm so the fields (firstName, etc) can be updated. So imagine a link that will map to GetUserAction and takes request parameter of id. For this example we'll bind our UserActionForm for this mapping. So we might have a link that looks like... /getUser.do?id=3456 which in our StrutsConfig file we'd map that getUser.do to our GetUserAction. So GeUserAction is called... now here's where you'll see what I'd do... //in execute of GetUserAction.. UserActionForm userForm = (UserActionForm)form; String id = userForm.getId(); //now you mentioned you have different business calls to make //to populate both contact information and the rest of the info... //I'd think about creating a new query but lets assume you have to make //both calls. We'll use a service class that hides the implementation, //but what should always be returned is some kind of BusinessObject - //not an ActionForm... these business objects holding the data are //ValueObjects or DTOs - just glorified names for plain old java object //really. //NameValueObject holds firstName, lastName, homePhone NameValueObject nameObject = yourServiceLayer.getNameObject( id ); //ContactValueObject holds contact1, contact2 ContactValueObject contactObject = yourServiceLayer.getContactObject( id ) //so now you have the concern you were talking about earlier: //Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform - but notice now it's not based //on the view layer. //now we can simply use bean utils to populate our form bean for //the display: //to avoid having to do userForm.setFirstName( // nameObject.getFirstName() ); //for all the properties..use BeanUtils... BeanUtils.copyProperties( userForm, nameObject ); BeanUtils.copyProperties( userForm, contactObject ); //Viola. Now your UserActionForm is nice and populated and ready to be //used on your page. So yo forward on to your page and you have a //nice form with... html:form name=updateUser first name: html:text property=firstName/ //... Contact 1: html:text property=contact1/ //..etc /html:form The above of course submits to UpdateUserAction (or if Dispatch Action something like UserAction and in there you could do the reverse... UserActionForm userForm = (UserActionForm)form; NameValueObject nameObject = new NameValueObject(); BeanUtils.copyProperties( nameObject, userForm ); ContactValueObject contactObject = new ContactValueObject(); BeanUtils.copyProperties( contactObject , userForm ); yourServiceLayer.updateUser( nameObject, contactObject ); Again I still think it makes more sense to probably have just one ValueObject ( user ) to deal with holding all this, but you might have some requirement were you need to have each different object representing a table. (Use iBATIS and you won't have to worry about that:) By the way, I have some examples of this stuff at http://www.reumann.net/do/struts/main A lot of the stuff I do there I'd do slightly different now but the principals are still ok. -- Rick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
Rick Reumann wrote: html:form name=updateUser Sorry this of course should be html:form action=updateUser -- Rick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
Thanks to all, for gliding me back to the light. Jim, you were right I was over engineering it. I'll put down the oil, screwdriver and jackhammer then digest Rick's suggestions. again thanks, Shed -Original Message- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 12:05 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote: Rick, my apologies for being unclear here, html:text is html-el:text and I am using JSTL to retrieve data and iterate with (c:foreach). There are alot more fields involve here each ActionForm corrolate to a database tables(Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform). I would like the user to be able update fields in multiple tables without binding the table in one very big ActionForm. Does this fit the exception of nested forms using JSTL? I understand it was html-el, but that doesn't matter - you should still just use property when you 'can' for text fields ( if iterating over checkboxes and displaying the values of the checkboxes with el, that makes more sense). You shouldn't be worrying about the backend at all from a front end perspective. The role of the front end is to capture and display data so I wouldn't worry about: (Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform). Here's what I do in your case. Imagine the slightly more complex case of updating user information Using your scenario, the set up could be like this: 1) Create an ActionForm that will be used to capture user information: //UserActionForm String id String firstName String lastName String homePhone String contact1 String contact2 2) I'd use a Dispatch Action for the Action class, but since I'm not sure if used them before, I'll assume a regular Action. So Create a GetUserAction and for this example we'll also need an UpdateUserAction (Dispatch really makes this much easier but that's another topic). 3) User might click on a link with an userID and we then need to populate the ActionForm so the fields (firstName, etc) can be updated. So imagine a link that will map to GetUserAction and takes request parameter of id. For this example we'll bind our UserActionForm for this mapping. So we might have a link that looks like... /getUser.do?id=3456 which in our StrutsConfig file we'd map that getUser.do to our GetUserAction. So GeUserAction is called... now here's where you'll see what I'd do... //in execute of GetUserAction.. UserActionForm userForm = (UserActionForm)form; String id = userForm.getId(); //now you mentioned you have different business calls to make //to populate both contact information and the rest of the info... //I'd think about creating a new query but lets assume you have to make //both calls. We'll use a service class that hides the implementation, //but what should always be returned is some kind of BusinessObject - //not an ActionForm... these business objects holding the data are //ValueObjects or DTOs - just glorified names for plain old java object //really. //NameValueObject holds firstName, lastName, homePhone NameValueObject nameObject = yourServiceLayer.getNameObject( id ); //ContactValueObject holds contact1, contact2 ContactValueObject contactObject = yourServiceLayer.getContactObject( id ) //so now you have the concern you were talking about earlier: //Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform - but notice now it's not based //on the view layer. //now we can simply use bean utils to populate our form bean for //the display: //to avoid having to do userForm.setFirstName( //nameObject.getFirstName() ); //for all the properties..use BeanUtils... BeanUtils.copyProperties( userForm, nameObject ); BeanUtils.copyProperties( userForm, contactObject ); //Viola. Now your UserActionForm is nice and populated and ready to be //used on your page. So yo forward on to your page and you have a //nice form with... html:form name=updateUser first name: html:text property=firstName/ //... Contact 1: html:text property=contact1/ //..etc /html:form The above of course submits to UpdateUserAction (or if Dispatch Action something like UserAction and in there you could do the reverse... UserActionForm userForm = (UserActionForm)form; NameValueObject nameObject = new NameValueObject(); BeanUtils.copyProperties( nameObject, userForm ); ContactValueObject contactObject = new ContactValueObject(); BeanUtils.copyProperties( contactObject , userForm ); yourServiceLayer.updateUser( nameObject, contactObject ); Again I still think it makes more sense to probably have just one ValueObject ( user ) to deal with holding all this, but you might have some requirement were you need to have each different object representing a table. (Use iBATIS and you won't have to worry about that:) By the way, I have some examples of this stuff at http
RE: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
-Original Message- From: Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:13 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action Thanks to all, for gliding me back to the light. Jim, you were right I was over engineering it. I'll put down the oil, screwdriver and jackhammer then digest Rick's suggestions. *LOL* I have never ever over-engineered anything any my life. *LOL* Stop giggling it's true :) I've just started looking at the struts side entirely from the users perspective, completely ignoring what my backend might look like. That allows me to design a great UI. Then, I use the action class to map the UI to my object model. again thanks, Shed -Original Message- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 12:05 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote: Rick, my apologies for being unclear here, html:text is html-el:text and I am using JSTL to retrieve data and iterate with (c:foreach). There are alot more fields involve here each ActionForm corrolate to a database tables(Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform). I would like the user to be able update fields in multiple tables without binding the table in one very big ActionForm. Does this fit the exception of nested forms using JSTL? I understand it was html-el, but that doesn't matter - you should still just use property when you 'can' for text fields ( if iterating over checkboxes and displaying the values of the checkboxes with el, that makes more sense). You shouldn't be worrying about the backend at all from a front end perspective. The role of the front end is to capture and display data so I wouldn't worry about: (Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform). Here's what I do in your case. Imagine the slightly more complex case of updating user information Using your scenario, the set up could be like this: 1) Create an ActionForm that will be used to capture user information: //UserActionForm String id String firstName String lastName String homePhone String contact1 String contact2 2) I'd use a Dispatch Action for the Action class, but since I'm not sure if used them before, I'll assume a regular Action. So Create a GetUserAction and for this example we'll also need an UpdateUserAction (Dispatch really makes this much easier but that's another topic). 3) User might click on a link with an userID and we then need to populate the ActionForm so the fields (firstName, etc) can be updated. So imagine a link that will map to GetUserAction and takes request parameter of id. For this example we'll bind our UserActionForm for this mapping. So we might have a link that looks like... /getUser.do?id=3456 which in our StrutsConfig file we'd map that getUser.do to our GetUserAction. So GeUserAction is called... now here's where you'll see what I'd do... //in execute of GetUserAction.. UserActionForm userForm = (UserActionForm)form; String id = userForm.getId(); //now you mentioned you have different business calls to make //to populate both contact information and the rest of the info... //I'd think about creating a new query but lets assume you have to make //both calls. We'll use a service class that hides the implementation, //but what should always be returned is some kind of BusinessObject - //not an ActionForm... these business objects holding the data are //ValueObjects or DTOs - just glorified names for plain old java object //really. //NameValueObject holds firstName, lastName, homePhone NameValueObject nameObject = yourServiceLayer.getNameObject( id ); //ContactValueObject holds contact1, contact2 ContactValueObject contactObject = yourServiceLayer.getContactObject( id ) //so now you have the concern you were talking about earlier: //Atable = Aform, Btable = Bform - but notice now it's not based //on the view layer. //now we can simply use bean utils to populate our form bean for //the display: //to avoid having to do userForm.setFirstName( // nameObject.getFirstName() ); //for all the properties..use BeanUtils... BeanUtils.copyProperties( userForm, nameObject ); BeanUtils.copyProperties( userForm, contactObject ); //Viola. Now your UserActionForm is nice and populated and ready to be //used on your page. So yo forward on to your page and you have a //nice form with... html:form name=updateUser first name: html:text property=firstName/ //... Contact 1: html:text property=contact1/ //..etc /html:form The above of course submits to UpdateUserAction (or if Dispatch Action something like
Re: Multiple forms in one JSP + one Action
Hollaway, Shedrick CIV (TRFKB C600) wrote: Rick wrote: Guys, This is what I wanted to do without using any javascript. Why don't you just tell us what you want to do without giving the html? Then we can see what html you really might need. If your html were adequate, you would not have to ask the question. So, that won't help. Thanks. Michael - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
