Your lazy (smart!) way #1 is correct. Let Struts instantiate your
ActionForms.
-Max
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From: "Fred Lamuette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:17 PM
Subject: Newbie question
> For editing an article, i use this action, and of course i don't come from
a
> submitted form :
>
> <action path="/article/edit"
> type="com.xxx.ArticleAction"
> name="articleForm"
> scope="request"
> validate="false">
> <forward name="success" path="/pages/article.vm"/>
> </action>
>
> And i use the folowing attributes
> (name="articleForm",scope="request",validate="false") only for not
> instanciating myself an articleForm in my ArticleAction, then i can
populate
> it and render it with article.vm.
> My question is : what is the best practice ?
> 1/ My lazzy way to get an instance of articleForm
> 2/ Put this code before populating the form bean ?
> if (form == null) {
> form = new ArticleForm();
> if ("request".equals(mapping.getScope()))
> request.setAttribute(mapping.getAttribute(), form);
> else
> session.setAttribute(mapping.getAttribute(), form);
> }
>
> Thank you
> Richard.
>
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