Hello. I'm trying to use <html:link> to submit the contents of a form.
The problem is that when I submit the form using <html:link>, the
ActionForm bean is not populated. My form looks like:
<html:form action="simpleQuery.do">
...
<html:link forward="simpleQuery"
paramId="offset"
paramName="resultNavigator"
paramProperty="startIndex" >
{Stuff here}
</html:link>
...
</html:form>
In struts-config.xml, I've defined a global forward mapping from
"simpleQuery" to "/simpleQuery.do" . The parameter "offset" passes as a
request parameter to the Action class okay.
The only difference in the processing within Struts that I see is that,
for a form submission with the "Submit" button, Struts sees a "POST"
whereas for the <html:link> it sees a "GET" operation. For example,
output when using <html:submit>:
2001-07-03 16:30:07 action: Processing a POST for /simpleQuery
2001-07-03 16:30:07 action: Looking for ActionForm bean under attribute
'simpleQueryForm'
2001-07-03 16:30:07 action: Creating new ActionForm instance of class
'edu.ucar.comet.struts.SimpleQueryForm'
2001-07-03 16:30:07 action: Storing instance under attribute
'simpleQueryForm' in scope 'request'
2001-07-03 16:30:07 action: Populating bean properties from this request
2001-07-03 16:30:07 action: Validating input form properties
2001-07-03 16:30:07 action: No errors detected, accepting input
2001-07-03 16:30:07 action: Looking for Action instance for class
edu.ucar.comet.struts.SimpleQueryAction
output when using <html:link>:
2001-07-03 16:30:24 action: Processing a GET for /simpleQuery
2001-07-03 16:30:24 action: Looking for ActionForm bean under attribute
'simpleQueryForm'
2001-07-03 16:30:24 action: Creating new ActionForm instance of class
'edu.ucar.comet.struts.SimpleQueryForm'
2001-07-03 16:30:24 action: Storing instance under attribute
'simpleQueryForm' in scope 'request'
2001-07-03 16:30:24 action: Populating bean properties from this request
2001-07-03 16:30:24 action: Validating input form properties
2001-07-03 16:30:24 action: No errors detected, accepting input
2001-07-03 16:30:24 action: Looking for Action instance for class
edu.ucar.comet.struts.SimpleQueryAction
