I'm a fairly new Struts user, struggling to get up that first hump on the learning curve, so sorry if this is a clueless question:
I have a family of subclasses descended from a common base class. Because they are all similar, I wrote one DisplayAction to look up and display any of the subclasses. Each subclass has its own JSP for display and the DisplayAction is able to select an appropriate ActionForward based on which subclass we are displaying. So far, so good. Likewise I want like to write a single EditAction to display any of the subclasses in an appropriate form, and a single UpdateAction to handle saving changes back to my model when the form is submitted. Each of the subclasses has its own ActionForm and corresponding JSP for editing. Part of the goal here is to make it as easy as possible to add another subclass. I specifically *don't* want to have to write all the CRUD actions separately for each individual subclass. My dilemma is this: How do I choose dynamically (at run-time) which ActionForm is to be submitted to my UpdateAction? I don't know which Form I'll need until I know what subclass I am updating, so configuring it statically in an <action> element in struts-config.xml won't work. Do I need to have a separate <action> element for updating each subclass? That sounds tedious, especially if they all call the same Action and differ only in their "name" attribute. Should I make one giant ActionForm that has all the fields of all the subclasses? That seems messy. Is there a cleaner way by subclassing one of the struts components? It seems that using the "name" and "type" attributes of the <html:form> tag might work, because that would allow the JSP to specify what type of ActionForm it needs, which is what I want. But, these attributes are deprecated. Why are they deprecated? Anyway, it's my experience that when you're fighting the framework, you're probably doing something wrong. But, it seems like this would be a common situation. So, is there a simple solution? Am I totally on crack for wanting to do it this way? Thanks for any hints and suggestions!! -chris __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
