Thanks for your help! It worked!
Now I have the user on the new page, but when the createAccount is entered
the action behind the form is also called.
Is there a way to avoid this?
Andreas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 3:02 PM
Subject: RE: Forwarding parameters
> Andreas,
>
> If I understand correctly, you have a LoginAction and a NewUserAction. If
> the user identifies himself as a new user, you want LoginAction to forward
> to a page where the user name is populated and the processing is handled
by
> NewUserAction.
>
> One approach would be to place the user name as a request parameter (not
> attribute) in the query string
> and forward to the new user page. The form on the new user page will
render
> the form with the new user
> name populated in the appropriate field. In this fashion you let Struts do
> most of the work for you.
>
> In order for this to work the user name field name must be identical in
the
> login form and the new user form.
> You must also bind the new user form to the NewUserAction by assigning its
> name to the input attribute of the form element in the struts-config file.
>
> For example you should have something like the following in your struts
> config file:
>
> <form-beans>
> <form-bean name="loginForm" type="com.mycompany.BaseForm">
> <form-bean name="newUserForm" type="com.mycompany.BaseForm">
> </form-beans>
>
> <action-mappings>
> <action path="/do/login"
> parameter=""
> validate="true"
> scope="request"
> name="loginForm"
> type="com.mycompany.BaseAction"
> input="/login.jsp">
>
> <forward name="success" path="/account/index.jsp"/>
> <forward name="newuser" path="/createAccount.jsp"/>
>
> </action>
>
> <action path="/do/createAccount"
> parameter=""
> validate="true"
> scope="request"
> name="newUserForm"
> type="com.mycompany.BaseAction"
> input="/createAccount.jsp">
>
> <forward name="success" path="/account/index.jsp"/>
>
>
> </action>
>
>
> The createAccount.jsp should have a form element which "points" to the
> createAccount action.
> <html:form action="createAccount" ..../>
>
>
> The LoginAction code would look something like this:
>
> MyForm form = (MyForm)form;
> String userName = form.getUserName();
> if (isNewUser(userName)) { // determine if the user is a new user
>
> forward = mapping.findForward("newuser");
> /*
> * NOTE:
> * There are cleaner ways to attach a parameter
> * to the path. Search for
> * ParameterActionForward in the mailing list archives.
> */
> String path = forward.getPath() + "?userName=" + userName;
> forward = new ActionForward(path);
>
> } else {
>
> // do something else
>
> }
>
> return forward;
>
>
> One last thing. The reason your data is getting "lost" is because you
> are redirecting instead of forwarding. When you redirect, a new request
> is created thereby loosing all of your existing data. A quick solution
> would be to set the redirect flag in the forward to false or just omit
> it since forwarding is the default behavior for an ActionForward.
>
> HTH,
>
> robert
>
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