So you preload a formbean in an Action just not in the Action associated directly with the form bean?
-----Original Message----- From: HERSHKOWITZ,PHIL (A-Sonoma,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:32 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: How to Pre-fill a formbean Hi, >From the loginAction, I am calling the database to retrieve default values for some of the fields the use must fill out on mainAction.jsp. The default values depend on the user ID. Phil > -----Original Message----- > From: John Menke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 6:28 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: How to Pre-fill a formbean > > > How do you know what record in the database this will > retrieve? Where does > it get it's data. the form bean that is instantiated will be > empty unless > you put data into it correct? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay sissom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:12 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: How to Pre-fill a formbean > > > The form bean has already been created by the time your > mainAction perform > method is called if you have defined the form bean in your > struts-config.xml file. > > All you would do is this: > > mainForm mf = (mainForm)form; > // where form is passed to the perform method > > mf.setProperty1("asdfasdf"); > mf.setProperty2("asdffdf"); > mf.setProperty3("asdfasdf"); > > Then in the JSP that you forward to, you can use > <bean:write/> to write > out the properties from the bean. > > Jay > > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > My jsp application begins at a login page. > > > > I call the login page action loginAction and I have defined > loginForm to > > process the user details. > > > > If the login is successful, the action forwards to > mainAction.jsp, whose > > form action is /mainAction > > > > Before I display the mainAction.jsp I want to pre-load some > form values > from > > the java code that processes the login action > (loginAction.java) by using > > the Set methods of mainForm. > > > > Is the best way to do this to get a reference to the not-yet-created > > mainForm bean? If so, would someone give a code snippet > showing how to > refer > > to a bean that is not the struts form bean for the loginAction? > > > > Or is there a better way to do this? > > > > Thanks, > > Phil > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
