Posting to my own question: As I workaround I figure out to override the Struts 1.1 DynaActionForm with a customized one which has a reset doing nothing, and specify in struts-config the dyna forms with type="the customized DynaActionForm".
However I am afraid that I am missing something. Adolfo. >From: "Adolfo Miguelez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: DynaActionForm reset vs ActionForm reset (URGENT, TIA) >Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 13:05:41 +0000 > > >Hi All, > >I run in same issue that Jay Paulsen did weeks ago. He did not get any >answer so I would like to post if back. The point is that, Action Form >reset() method does nothing which for my application is find. The problem >arises when, migrating to DynaActionForms, reset() methods actually resets >the form, previously to fill it with request parameters. > >Since my form holds disabled inputs, they are not transferred in the >request. As the form is reset, I loose the previous values in the >parameters, so I get null data for the disabled HTML input fields. > >This behaviour was fine in ActionForm, since values where stored (and not >reset) in the form, but is making troubles with DynaActionForms. > >I would be grateful if anyone can give some pointer if this is a expected >performance, and which is a workaround or the way to proceed or is just a >design flaw in Struts 1.1. > >Best regards, > >Adolfo > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg30062.html > >Hello, > >I just started playing with DynaActionForms and have noticed that the reset >method resets all properties to their initial values. This is different >from the ActionForm where the reset method did nothing. In the past I've >usually redirected to an action to redisplay a form that was submitted but >was found to be in error. Using a subclass of ActionForm without the reset >method overridden allows for the form contents to be displayed across a >sendRedirect. When I substitute the ActionForm subclass with a >DynaActionForm, the contents are reset and there are no request parameters >to repopulate it since a sendRedirect was used. This results in an empty >form for the user. > >So I figure I have two options - >1) don't do a sendRedirect - do a forward instead >2) Subclass DynaActionForm and override reset to do nothing (hack) > >My questions ... > >Was I doing something bad (or ignorant) by not overriding the reset method >on my old ActionForm sub classes? > >How do you handle errors - do you just forward to the page to redisplay the >form? I was doing a sendRedirect to avoid the reload/refresh problem. >What's the best way to avoid the refresh/reload problem? > >If I choose option 2 above - am I asking for trouble? > > >Any comments are greatly appreciated. > >-Jay > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Adolfo's signature</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <center><b><em>Adolfo Rodriguez Miguelez</em><b></center> </BODY> </HTML> _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
