You input field will be something like <html:text name="myForm" property="address.line1"/>
Or if you only want to display <bean:write name="myForm" property="address.line1"/> This assumes you have a form called myForm with your address object called getAddress() and your address object has getLine1(). -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Krehbiel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 November, 2002 08:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about object in struts form Hello, I'm new to struts and have tried looking through the archives here as well as around the web and am unable to find the answer to my question. I'm guessing that it's not possible to do what I want, but figured I'd ask before giving up... So, I have a class User that contains a String for the name, and an Address object for the address (the Address object contains more Strings, etc for city, state, zip, address1, etc). I have defined all the get/set functions. I have a form that I want to use to edit the user info. No problem to edit the name. Problem is that I also want to edit the address fields. So, what I was hoping to be able to do was declare my dyna-form in struts-config to have a form-property with name="user" and type="org.blah.blah.dao.User". Then in the jsp code I would refer to user.name, user.address.city, etc. I got this to work fine for creating and populating the edit page. The problem comes about when I try to "save" the changes. No matter what I try I get all kinds of errors in the BeanUtils populate. One that I can't seem to get around is that it seems to want me to have a hidden type for my user object, and when I do that it complains that it can't conver from type String to type User. The other weird thing is that in the logs it gives me the following: [Thread-4] DEBUG org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils - --> DynaActionForm[dynaClass=userForm,user=org.taprootfoundation.trweb.dao.User@ 181497d] [Thread-4] DEBUG org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor - Storing ActionForm bean instance in scope 'session' under attribute key 'userForm' [Thread-4] DEBUG org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor - Populating bean properties from this request [Thread-4] DEBUG org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils - BeanUtils.populate(DynaActionForm[dynaClass=userForm,user=<NULL>] I don't understand why it has a value for user within the userForm, and then seems to "lose" it. Before I made my scope session (was request before), it had NULL throughout the logs. Any suggestions, or examples, or statements that you can't do what I'm trying to do are appreciated. Thanks, Wendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relating to the official business of Standard Bank Group Limited is proprietary to the company. It is confidential, legally privileged and protected by law. Standard Bank does not own and endorse any other content. Views and opinions are those of the sender unless clearly stated as being that of Standard Bank. The person addressed in the e-mail is the sole authorised recipient. Please notify the sender immediately if it has unintentionally reached you and do not read, disclose or use the content in any way. Standard Bank can not assure that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that it is free of errors, virus, interception or interference. ______________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
