Toby, In your action, you can cast the ActionForm to the right type of form, then use the set/get methods.
If your ActionForm is of type "eg.FirstForm", in your Action's execute (or perform if you're using an older verions of Struts) you can: eg.FirstForm myForm = (eg.FirstForm) form; myForm.setPassword( someFunctionThatReturnsTheUsersPassword() ); That stores the password for display using the <html:form ... /> tag <html:text property="password"/>, ASSUMING your eg.FirstForm ActionForm has a getPassword property. There should be good examples in the struts example .wars. Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Toby Saville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 8:20 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Representing Existing Objects In Forms David, Thanks for your assistance. I suppose im wondering if there is a way to set the values of my ActionForm implementation variables(CustomerForm in my case) before the form is displayed, thus automatically populating the form when it is displayed. I am able to set the values of my form bean (CustomerForm) in its constructor. But to do what i want, i need to have access to the request object in order to get a cookie value. Perhaps I should just use your first suggestiong in order to achieve this. -----Original Message----- From: David Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 1 December 2003 12:03 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Representing Existing Objects In Forms Toby, You could: a) Have a Password field in your ActionForm. Then, you could lookup the password, copy it into the ActionForm, and have the ActionForm display it in your JSP when you show a <html:text property="password"/> field. b) Save the password in a bean and print it out with a <bean:write ... /> statement so it is only viewable (read-only) c) use an <html:text name="someRequestOrSessionBean" property="password" /> so you could save your own bean into the request or session scope then display it as a text box. If you want it to be submitted to a form, you probably want to make sure that whatever action it submits to has a field with the same "property" name (in this case "password"). I think there are other methods but these are the ones I know and use. Probably because the Struts examples showed me how (hint, hint!). :) Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Toby Saville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:35 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Representing Existing Objects In Forms David, Perhaps I dont understand the full capabilities of ActionForms. I am fine with creating a new customer from the contents of a form. But after this is done (and, for eg, the user has used parts of the site) and they decide to change their email address, how can i display (in the form) the password they entered when they registered in order to let them modify it? thanks, toby. -----Original Message----- From: David Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 1 December 2003 11:25 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Representing Existing Objects In Forms Toby, Where is your trouble? Do you not understand ActionForms? Are you worried about how to transfer the data submitted and auto-populated into the ActionForm into your business logic? Or is something else confusing you? Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Toby Saville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 6:30 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Representing Existing Objects In Forms hello all, I am wanting to represent an existing object using a form and was wondering how to do this. My situation is displaying a customer's details in a form for the purpose of allowing them to update them. I cant think how I can populate the form tho. Im new to struts and this list so i apolagise if this has already been answered. Thanks, toby -----Original Message----- From: David Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 1 December 2003 8:35 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: org.apache.struts.legacy.GenericDataSource Rajat, I haven't had any problems with DBCP. It's just that a different pool came with Hibernate that I used in production by default. I'm using DBCP in testing but I always close my development computer (my desktop) down at night so I have no comments on how DBCP works in reality. I'm sure it's fine in production. Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Rajat Pandit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 1:13 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: org.apache.struts.legacy.GenericDataSource hey david, thanks a lot!, just one last question, what kind of troubles did u have with DBCP. coz this will be used in production so i want to know what to expect, however a refactoring is schedule anyway but not anytime sooner. thanks once again! David Friedman wrote: > Rajit, > > I don't use the Struts DataSource because I had to much trouble with it a > few months ago. However, the commons DBCP expains all parameters here: > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp/configuration.html > > You should be able to set any of them in your struts-config.xml data-source > entry with this syntax: > > <set-property > property="minIdle" > value="XXX" /> > > I checked my testing and production environments and I forgot I've switched > away from DBCP to C3P0 (it comes with Hibernate). However, I'd recommend > the options (listed in the above mentioned web page): > > validationQuery set to "select 1+1" works in MySQL and returns 1 row > testWhileIdle set to "true" > timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis set to "1800000" (1000 miliseconds * 60 > seconds * 30 minutes) > testOnBorrow set to "true" > minIdle set to "2" (or higher) > > Regards, > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rajat Pandit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 2:14 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: org.apache.struts.legacy.GenericDataSource > > > hello david, > thanks for the quick reply, could u pls mail me the extract of the > <data-source which worked fr u. along all with the settings. (u can > ofcourse remove the l/p :P ) > this would be a great help! and have u have the kind of sucess with DBCP > in dealing with connection pool and idle connections? > thanks! > > David Friedman wrote: > > >>Rajat, >> >>I've had that type of disconnect problem using Hibernate (a product > > roughly > >>like Ibatis). My problem was one of the DBCP settings: minIdle. MySQL >>wasn't seeing any activity on some pool connections overnight, so it was >>disconnecting them. Lowering the minIdle setting seemed to cause DBCP to >>test each pool connection by performing a simple select automatically. > > The > >>query seems to be a non-table select, along the lines of a 'select 1+1;'. >>That allowed MySQL to keep each connection active and not disconnect any >>overnight after being idle for hours. >> >>Regards, >>David >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rajat Pandit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 12:44 PM >>To: Struts Users Mailing List >>Subject: org.apache.struts.legacy.GenericDataSource >> >> >>hello gurus, >>i have an terrible terrible problem with my application, after hosting >>this application it stops to work after 8-10hrs of idle state. then the >>server has to restart and then its fine again. >> >>i learnt that the mysql driver disconects after 8hrs of an idle >>connection so i addred autoreconnect=true to the connection url. however >>the problem doesnt seem to get sovled. just extended fro another another >>and then the same problem again. >>i need to know how to remove org.apache.struts.legacy.GenericDataSource >>and use the connection from DBCP (commons lib ie.) and will i need to >>change the settings in the code (struts-config.xml) i also am thinking >>of refactoring the entire codebase usng iBatis. will it solve this issue? >> >>pls help! i need this project to be up and running in the next week. >>thanks once again >>the logs follows. >> >> >> >>NFO: Return allocated connection, activeCount=2, useCount=1 >>Nov 28, 2003 8:00:15 PM com.hedging.HedgeUser validUser >>INFO: --> Error: Communication link failure: java.io.IOException<-- >>Nov 28, 2003 8:00:15 PM org.apache.struts.legacy.GenericDataSource >>returnConnection >>INFO: releaseConnection(), activeCount=2, useCount=0 >>Nov 28, 2003 8:00:30 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket > > processConnection > >>INFO: connection timeout reached >>Nov 28, 2003 8:00:33 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket > > processConnection > >>INFO: connection timeout reached >>Nov 28, 2003 8:00:35 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket > > processConnection > >>INFO: connection timeout reached >>Nov 28, 2003 8:00:36 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket > > processConnection > >>INFO: connection timeout reached >>Nov 29, 2003 12:33:42 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket >>processConnection >>INFO: connection timeout reached >>Nov 29, 2003 12:33:47 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket >>processConnection >>INFO: connection timeout reached >>Nov 29, 2003 12:33:58 AM org.apache.struts.legacy.GenericDataSource >>getConnection >>INFO: getConnection() >>Nov 29, 2003 12:33:58 AM org.apache.struts.legacy.GenericDataSource >>getConnection >>INFO: Check for timeout, activeCount=2, useCount=0 >>Nov 29, 2003 12:33:58 AM org.apache.struts.legacy.GenericDataSource >>getConnection >>INFO: Found available connection >>Nov 29, 2003 12:33:58 AM org.apache.struts.legacy.GenericDataSource >>getConnection >>INFO: Return allocated connection, activeCount=2, useCount=1 >>Nov 29, 2003 12:33:58 AM com.hedging.HedgeUser validUser >>INFO: --> Error: No operations allowed after connection closed<-- >>Nov 29, 2003 12:33:58 AM org.apache.struts.legacy.GenericDataSource >>returnConnection >>INFO: releaseConnection(), activeCount=2, useCount=0 >>Nov 29, 2003 12:34:18 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket >>processConnection >>-- >> >> >>Rajat Pandit | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>+91 612 3117606 >>[ Developer and Part Time Human Being] >> >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>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] >> > > > -- > > > Rajat Pandit | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +91 612 3117606 > [ Developer and Part Time Human Being] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > -- Rajat Pandit | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +91 612 3117606 [ Developer and Part Time Human Being] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] *************************************************************** This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. 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