Action chaining is considered bad practice. There are numerous threads discussing the reasons - search the archive for details.
Remember of course that when you hit the second action the RequestProcessor executes again - this means that reset() is called again - and the form repopulated - which makes your symptoms "emptied" kind of strange - one would expect to see the form repopulated from the request (with changes you made to its contents in the first action being written over) but not emptied (unless none of those properties were in the request but were cleared in reset). Are you using a redirecting forward? hmmm. No you cant be if you can still find the form in the request. Anyhow, these are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the sort of fun problems you get from commiting the sin of action chaining. -----Original Message----- From: Caroline Lauferon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:55 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: chained actions I don't understand what is happening: I am chaining to Actions that use the same form input. when i submit the form, Action1 is called, and the form parameter is well populated. at the end of action1, I make a forward to Action2. and in Action2, the form is emptied!!??? I don't understand what is happening, and why. the solution I have found is not to specify a form bean for action2 and get it by request.getAttribute("MyForm"). i t works, but I would like to understand why struts creates a new form bean, overriding the existing one. I hope someone will explain me. Caroline PS: here is a snippet of struts-config.xml, Action1.java and Action2.java <action path="/action1" type="package.Action1" name="MyForm" scope="request"> <forward name="ok" path="/action2.do"/> </action> <action path="/action2" type="package.Action2" name="MyForm" scope="request"> > <forward name="ok" path="nextpage"/> </action> /// Action1 MyForm f = (MyForm ) a_form; s_logger.info("f.getField1() : "+ f.getField1()); // outputs a value /// Action2 MyForm f = (MyForm ) a_form; s_logger.info("f.getField1() : "+ f.getField1()); // outputs null --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
