Lately I've been posting some messages regarding writing Wizards using Struts and asked a lot of question, to which none of them I got any answer... sad but true. I solved it but still I would like to hear what is your point of view.
In my case I have a Registration wizard using a form on a session scope since I don't want to carry all the fields as hidden. Each page has a page number and method hidden parameter for controlling to sequence. Then I got to write the Editing of the registration information. I wanted to reuse my pages. Now comes the tricky part (I think). I wanted the Edit action to use the same form *but* on the request scope. Therefore, I couldn't just use the same <html:form action="/Signup.do"> tag but had to change based on the 'method' = 'create' or 'edit'. If method=create I use the action=/Signup.do, and in 'edit' I do action="/EditSignup.do". In both the EditSignup and Signup action-mapping I use the same form but different scope, and both going to the same SignupAction. All that is a lot of pain :) I hope there's a lot better way that I missed... As to the DispatchAction, one thing that bothers me is what happens if I want to differ between 'method' = create or edit in terms of security roles. Currently this is not possible using configuration but only in code. I would appreciate your comments, Erez -----Original Message----- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 6:06 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Action mapping 'inputForward' On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Erez Efrati wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:49:25 +0200 > From: Erez Efrati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Action mapping 'inputForward' > > Hi all, > > Is it recommended to use the 'inputForward'=true in the <controller> > configuration? > I do that all the time now. Among other things, it makes life much easier when you want to use multiple modules, or play with settings like forwardPattern and pagePatetrn. Finally, it's more consistent with the use of forwards everywhere else in Struts, and I sort of wish I'd made "input" take the name of a forward from the very beginning :-). > Thanks, > Erez Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
