Craig,
I'm a strong believer in backward compatibility. Therefore, my vote is "no"
since it will potentially have potential side affects.
- jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:42 PM
Subject: Calling ActionForm.reset() from <html:form> when creating a bean
> Bugzilla #2108 <http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2108>
> asks a very reasonable question -- whey isn't the reset() method called
> when a new form bean is created in the <html:form> tag? After all, the
> controller servlet will always call reset() on the form bean (whether or
> not it is newly created) before calling populate() to copy the request
> parameters.
>
> This seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to add for 1.1. My question
> is, what do folks think about making this change for 1.0 as well? I'm
> more than a little concerned that it would break existing code, but the
> consistency argument might make doing this worthwile anyway. (Of course,
> we would highlight this change in the Release Notes.).
>
> What do you think? Should we do this in 1.0 as well?
>
> Craig
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