Thank you. That was it.
Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: Deadman, Hal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Multiple Forms, Single Action
Both actions can share the same action class but they need to have different
paths, i.e. /saveSurvey can't be the path for both actions.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:54 PM
> To: Struts User List (E-mail)
> Subject: Multiple Forms, Single Action
>
>
> I have designed a survey for my company using STRUTS. I have tried to
> follow the MVC paradigm, but I fear I may have missed something.
>
> I have two forms, Survey1 and Survey2. They are in the same
> context called
> survey. They are represented by their own JSPs called survey1.jsp and
> survey2.jsp. They both have a form beans called Survey1Form and
> Survey2Form.
>
> However, instead of two different actions, they both use the
> same action
> called SaveSurveyAction. At this time, this action does only
> two things.
> It checks which instance of form, and arbitrarily returns
> success. No real
> inovation here, because I'm just trying to see if it works.
>
> The problem is, survey1.jsp keeps getting this message when I
> invoke it in
> the browser:
>
> javax.servlet.ServletException: No getter
> method available for property q2 for bean
> under name org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BEAN
>
> The survey2.jsp file does not get this message. After a bit
> of debugging,
> it seems that the Survey1Form bean is not being inst'd for
> survey1.jsp.
> Instead, it looks as if Survey2Form is being inst'd for both
> survey1.jsp and
> survey2.jsp.
>
> The property of q2 is not present in Survey2Form, and if I add it, the
> message changes to the next property, q3. But I don't want
> Survey2Form to
> have the same properties as Survey1Form. That's the whole
> point. I should
> be able to have two different forms with the same action. No?
>
> Here is some of my struts-config.xml:
>
> <form-beans>
> <form-bean name="survey1Form"
> type="com.trams.survey.Survey1Form"/>
> <form-bean name="survey2Form"
> type="com.trams.survey.Survey2Form"/>
> </form-beans>
>
> <global-forwards>
> <forward name="success" path="/thankyou.jsp"/>
> </global-forwards>
>
> <action-mappings>
> <action
> path="/saveSurvey"
> type="com.trams.survey.SaveSurveyAction"
> name="survey1Form"
> scope="request"
> input="/survey1.jsp"
> validate="true">
> </action>
> <action
> path="/saveSurvey"
> type="com.trams.survey.SaveSurveyAction"
> name="survey2Form"
> scope="request"
> input="/survey2.jsp"
> validate="true">
> </action>
> </action-mappings>
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
>
> Anthony
>
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