Adam Hardy wrote:
Thanks for the input everyone but I can't say I've found a solution that stands out as "the way to do it" yet.
I need a technique that I can consistently use across the whole app. Up to this point I have been using the formbean to get my hands on the data in the action. I've got the following various places where I need the id of the object being edited:
- to fetch the rest of the object's properties for display - to fetch data for dropdown boxes - to fetch data for child objects
Up till now in all of these I was getting the id from the formbean. But now that won't work. Because I have hooked two actions together the id in the formbean in the 2nd action in question is out-of-date.
For consistency's sake I didn't want to start doing different data retrieval in different places - here from the request, here from the formbean, here from the session etc.
Or am I being too purist?
ansuman_behera wrote:
what if there is a restriction that the developers should not be using hidden variables? what do you do in this case?
-----Original Message----- From: Rohit Aeron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 11:54 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: method to get new Id to next action when old Id is in request?
Try putting up id as a hidden variable...
Eg:
<html:hidden name="FormBean" property="id"/>
it would work regards Rohit
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:56 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: method to get new Id to next action when old Id is in request?
I have two actions chained together. They both take the same formbean. The first is sectionInsert.do and the second, which sectionInsert forwards to on success, is sectionEdit.do
sectionInsert.do receives the properties of a Section in the request parameters, including id=0 where it is 0 because it does not exist in the DB yet. So it inserts the new Section into the DB and returns the new id, which is needed by sectionEdit to put into the html for the edit page.
I originally thought I could save the new id to the formbean and this would get passed on, but sectionEdit instantiates its own formbean and fills it with the request parameters - include id=0.
Is there an intuitive way of passing on the new id?
I already use sectionEdit.do as a first action by calling it with an id on a querystring, where the formbean picks it up. I would like to use a method that is easy for both these situations.
I'd appreciate any inspiration. Adam
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