There is actually just such a check, though this would be a very good
suggestion if there weren't ;-)
See processActionForm in ActionServlet.
Please let us know if you see anything else.
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Bob Rullo wrote:
>
> This is my first posting to the dev board so bare with me.
>
> >From what I've seen in looking in the ActionServlet code it appears that
> everytime a action is called the form instance for that action is placed
> into the mapping.getScope( ). Shouldn't there be a check before to see if
> the ActionForm is already in the scope? Reason being that one action could
> make some modifications to a form instance and then forward it to another
> action that will make more changes to the form instance. Basically my
> problem is that if two actions having the same form instance are called in
> the same request the form instance stored in the request will always be
> overridden by the last action.
>
> I propose that we should do a check before each action to determine if the
> form already exists in the desired scope. If so, use the scoped instance,
> if not, build the form instance off of the request parameters as it is now.
>
> If this was by design, could someone shed some light to why?
>
> Thank you for your help,
> -Bob
