The data not going to a form bean seem to be a 'very' limited use, especially with the ease of DynaActionForms. There already exists a fair amount of technology to handle this sort of situation. Additionally, the idea of struts was to put a framework around this. To compliciate the tags for this situation seems...like it should be thought about further.
Edgar -----Original Message----- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:21 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject: RE: why are form beans required for html:form? On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:14:46 -0600, Joe Germuska wrote: > Now, at the risk of sidetracking this discussion, I have to bring > up my other Struts pet-peeve -- the over complexity of pre-filling > forms from data rather than from the request. I'm wondering if > bringing up some questions about how the form bean is looked up > gives me a chance to scratch that itch too...? I don't think this is what you meant, but I've wondered whether the tags should check the request for a corresponding attribute if the formbean property returns null. This could answer the case where the target property is not a String (or boolean). If the bean property is null, and the same property exists in the request, then we have the case where validation failed and the attribute could not be stored in the target property. If the tag then displayed the request attribute, we could have typed input field on ActionForms. (Essentially, we are using the request as our String buffer.) Though for consistency, a better idea (if this first idea is even good) would be to check the request for a corresponding attribute first, and then look to the formbean property if the attribute is absent. Again, this would let us use the request for an input buffer, and reserve the ActionForm for validated input. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 1/2/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 1/2/2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
