My jsps currently assume use of the form specified in the mapping from <html:form action="mapping">. I suppose it's not a problem to always include the name property in my tags, and assign that the generic form bean name. It's a little bothersome though that the action writer needs to know what kind of object to create where for each local forward, and that pulling the data from the model is now duplicated in this action and in the generic form. My current design forwards with the UID of the data as a request parameter, the form is created for me, I populate it from the model in the reset method, then the other request paramters are populated for me, just like when the generic form is submitted. Seems a lot more straightforward, and I can still use a local forward to keep the navigation contained in the struts-config, and avoid form population anomalies, if I do this:
forward = new ActionForward((mapping.findForward("forward")).getName()+"?UID="+UID,true);
What does the "forward" forward map to? If it's another Action then that's considered action chaining, if it's a jsp then it's fine. Chaining actions isn't a good idea but if it works for you in this case, use it.
David
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