Hi, so far I only use request scoped form beans. Mainly not for user input fields, but for storing database information that is needed to display my views. So I need to prepopulate my form beans almost always. Works fine.
But now I need a kind of "shopping cart bean". I remember that Struts allows to set session scope in the struts-config.xml but I'm not sure if this is a good solution in my case. Let's say I want to fill that cart with some item ids. Later in my shopping basket i need grab this cart ids, query the database to prepopulate (another?) form bean with some more information about those items from the db. This means, if I take only "one" form bean for the shopping cart which I'll also use for a second "show basket" action that will show all the items I have, I would store a lot of information in the session scope. Actually it would be enough to store just those item ids in the session scope. On the other hand the struts docu recommends to use one form for several actions that somehow work on it. But I'm confused... So that means I better take one cart bean form with just the ids and one form bean for the "show basket" action, or? I mean, is it better to have something like: addToCart.do + cartFormBean (in session scope) showBasket.do + showBasketForm (in request scope) But how to grab the cartFormBean in showBasket.do? I can only specify one form per action in struts-config.xml!? Is there a Struts way to do this without putting too much data into session scope, or should i get the cartFormBean directly from the servlet's sessionContext while in showBasket.execute()? One more question about the form bean's reset() method. In case my form bean is in session scope, when is reset() called? I know for request scope that reset() is called every time the form bean is used. But I guess for session scope this wouldn't make sense because I would "null" my shopping cart Arraylist every time...?! Hope that's not to confusing for everybody as for me at the moment. Would be happy to get some ideas on how to handly "cart" in session scope with Struts. Thx. Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
