I tried it, and I still don't see Text fields populated in HTML form.. Does this mean I will have to manually write code to get handle to fForm from 'request' and call fForm.getXXX() in my JSP file ??
I thought html:text property="XXX" should automatically get the matching property value from the ActionForm in the similar way it does while POSTing. I must be missing something here... -----Original Message----- From: William Wan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 3:18 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: How to get data back from ActionForm to HTML form You have to add request.setAttribute("personnelForm ", fForm); in the action so that the form will be stored in the request for population in jsp. Otherwsie the tForm will only be available within your action scope only. -----Original Message----- From: Rohra, Prakash N. ,,DMDC/BEAU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:02 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: How to get data back from ActionForm to HTML form Hello.. I am a newbie to Struts. While reading the documentation, I gathered that "ActionForm" objects can be used to move data back and forth between HTML forms fields and ActionForm properties by using the formBeans. With proper entries in struts-congif.xml, Struts framework automatically creates the instance of "ActionForm" class and populates its properties based on the HTTP Post Request parameters while submitting a HTML form. I can see the form values in m y ActionForm and also in Action class. However, how do I achieve the same thing backwards. I mean, if I retrieve or generate some values in a Action class code, and populate these values in the ActionForm by calling myForm.setXXX(), I don't see these values appearing in the corresponding HTML form that gets forwarded by my Action. here is the part of my struts-config.xml <form-bean name="personnelForm" type="blankApp.PersonnelForm"/> <action path="/getpersonnel" type="blankApp.PersonnelAction" name="personnelForm" scope="request" input="/personnel.jsp" > <forward name="success" path="/personnel.jsp" /> </action> Here is the code from PersonnelAction.java: public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { PersonnelForm fForm = (PersonnelForm)form; fForm.setRank("RANK"); fForm.setPaygrade("PG"); System.out.println(fForm.getRank()); System.out.println(fForm.getPaygrade()); } Where rank, paygrade are properties of PersonnelForm.java and also defined as html:text in personnel.jsp. When I execute the /getpersonnel.do action, I see my code getting executed in PersonnelAction.java, but muy text fields in HTML form generated by personnel.jsp are blank. I expected it to display the data from PersonnelForm properties. What am I doing wrong? thanks -Prakash -- 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]>