Thanks for your reply Matt.
I tried invoking a Javascript function to perform the form submission,
e.g.:
<html:link onclick="performAction(form, 'simpleQuery.do')"
forward="simpleQuery"
paramId="offset"
paramName="resultNavigator"
paramProperty="startIndex" >
{Stuff here}
</html:link>
but the "forward" attribute overrides the "onclick". If I leave out the
"forward" attribute, the JSP doesn't compile complaining that I need to
use one of "forward", "href" or "page". So now my problems are:
1) How can I invoke the Javascript function (and ignore the hyperlink
attribute)
2) How do I pass the request parameter (can I still use paramId, etc.)
Thanks in advance.
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Matt Raible wrote:
> You cannot use a link to submit a form, unless you
> call a javascript function from the link. The link
> will only submit its parameters to the form bean.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Matt
>
> --- Steve A Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
>
>
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