I don't believe I can use this approach because my original JSP has many
links that all lead to the EditProduct action, but each link specifies a
different productId, corresponding to a different product. I need to wait
until the user clicks on a specific product before I can populate the bean,
and I need to have my action called to do this, which is the source of the
problem. My action isn't being called at all--it's just going directly to
the next JSP.
After finding out that it wasn't calling my action class, my next question
was: how does the ActionServlet know what JSP to go to? The answer is it's
using the "input" tag on the "editProduct" action mapping, and jumping
directly to that. The Struts docs imply that "input" is only used when a
ActionForm.validate() method returns ActionErrors, but apparently it's not
true: it's being jumped to in lieu of calling my action.
What have other people experienced when using the "input" tag?
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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rg]On Behalf Of Fletcher, Ken
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:32 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Reaching Action class from Href Link
I haven't played around with paramID, paramName and paramProperty in the tag
yet (still experimenting). However, I have been able to get the bean to
show up on the forwarded JSP by putting it in the HttpSession (from the
action class) and then have the JSP access the properties in regular
fashion:
<jsp:useBean id="info" class="logon.InfoForm" scope="session" />
<jsp:getProperty name="info" property="someInfo" />
Does anyone else have a more elegant solution to this?
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Maletic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 2:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Reaching Action class from Href Link
In my JSP, I've got:
<html:link href="editProduct.do" paramId="productId" paramName="product"
paramProperty="ID">
<i>My link goes here</i>
</html:link>
In my struts-config.xml file, I've got:
...
<form-bean name="productForm"
type="com.zerog.u2d.web.struts.product.ProductForm"/>
...
<action path="/editProduct"
type="com.zerog.u2d.web.struts.product.EditProduct"
name="productForm"
input="/devportal/template.jsp?page=PRODUCT"
validate="true"
>
<forward name="next" path="/devportal/template.jsp?page=PRODUCT"/>
</action>
What I'm finding is that my EditProduct action isn't being called at all.
I'm wanting EditProduct in this case to prepopulate the form bean with data
so it will display for editing on the next JSP. Because of this problem, no
data is being written into the form bean, so my form comes up blank when I
want it to be pre-filled with data.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
--Greg
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rg]On Behalf Of Fletcher, Ken
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:07 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Reaching Action class from Href Link
I'm using Tomcat.....don't know if it'll work using something else. Maybe
if you show some of your code I can help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Maletic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Reaching Action class from Href Link
It's not working for me, for some reason.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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rg]On Behalf Of Fletcher, Ken
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:41 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Reaching Action class from Href Link
<html:link href="SomeAction.do"></html:link> does work, as long as you have
the .do in there (did for me, anyway).
-----Original Message-----
From: John M. Corro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 3:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reaching Action class from Href Link
Thanks to John and Ken for the assistance.
Point of clarification other interested newbies, using a form's 'action'
value as the link's 'href' value will not work - the reason mine wasn't
working. For instance,
<form action="SomeAction">
may work, where as
<a href="SomeAction">~~~</a> or <html:link href="SomeAction"~~~></html:link>
will not.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: RE: Reaching Action class from Href Link
> Using the struts html:form tag will set the method to POST by default.
This
> won't prevent you from using the link as you describe though. The service
> methods of an HttpServlet doPost() and doGet() will accomplish essentially
> the same goal (often doGet() will just call doPost() ). In the case of
the
> struts ActionServlet, both of these methods call process(). So you can
use
> a query string to pass your parameters (or extra path info if you wish).
>
> So, that was a little long-winded way of saying that your link can look
> like:
> <a href="/someContext/someAction.do?param1=foo¶m2=bar¶m3=baz">LINK
> TEXT</a>
>
> Hope this helps!!
>
> --John
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John M. Corro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Reaching Action class from Href Link
>
>
> I've recently begun working with Struts and am looking to create a
scenario
> where a user can click on a link and trigger some event in an Action class
> (ie the clicking of a link would be the same as clicking a form's submit
> button). My understanding is that within Struts forms submit by the post
> method by default so I don't know if the only way to reach an Action class
> is by an actual form. Any one have any insight?
>
>
>
