While that is true, other than in the case of blank forms, isn't it true that one rarely depends on Struts to auto-generate the form bean? If you are presenting data, the form is pre-populated with such data. This data is typically derived by an earlier action -- mediated by a business delegate.
Say you have action-1 which is invoked when a page-1 is submitted. It does sundry business functions which includes getting the data necessary for the next page, page-2 say. In order for page-2 to pick up this data, action-1 must know the 'name' attribute for the action-mapping corresponding to page-2 and save the form-bean under this name in the appropriate scope. Is there a way around this issue? Sri -----Original Message----- From: Eddie Bush [mailto:ekbush@;swbell.net] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 3:00 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: request.setAttribute() form confusion You shouldn't ever have to create the form yourself if you: - declare the form-bean in your config file - use the name of the form you declared in the action mapping's "name" attribute <form-bean name="myForm" ... /> ... <action path="/somePath" name="myForm" ... /> That should suffice. What you should find is that the form is created for you. Doing things as I mention simplifies you actions so that they can just expect the form to be there. If the form is not there you will probably NPE. That would indicate that you didn't create the association (by setting name="myForm") or Struts wasn't able to create the form for some odd reason. Susan Bradeen wrote: >Nevermind, answering my own question ... > >actions in the Struts examples don't use the second line of code, so >the >answer is no, you don't need the two together. > >Susan > -- Eddie Bush -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
