I think this is a great idea. We often use buttons on the form for navigation between inquiry/dispaly pages which requires that we use a default formbean. Maybe you could add the attributre to the action noded of the struts config file instead of making it a custom tag attribute? This would allow you to let the request processor do the check and instantiate a base/dummy action form. Then you wouldn't have to refactor the tag libraries? I suppose this might sound like a kluge.
Gary VanMatre -----Original Message----- From: Joe Germuska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:09 AM To: Struts Developers List Subject: RE: why are form beans required for html:form? At 8:59 PM -0700 1/14/04, Richard Hightower wrote: >how about another attribute, i.e., > ><html:form checkFormBean="false" ... > >The checkFormBean defaults to true so it is backwards compatible with other >versions. > > >I like the idea that html:form checks for the form bean. It makes it easier >to debug the way it is. >However, I can see when you would not want that.... Well, I'm figuring that if you actually NEED the form bean, then something else would throw an exception; presumably the first input tag which isn't backed by some explicitly named bean. I'd probably leave out the parameter in preference of error checking at the right spot. I think what Ted was getting at in his email was that other tags might not be doing good error checking because they've always deferred to html:form -- and yes, it would be bad to remove the check and then start having NPEs thrown that might be much harder to debug. Joe -- Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.germuska.com "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." -- Jef Raskin --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
