Thanks to both Greg and Jonathan. I love it when multiple answers concur! ;-)
JDG > -----Original Message----- > From: Fullam, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:13 AM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: How do I combine tiles and pre-populated forms? > > > Sorry...I replied before I received this response. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Reddin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:47 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: How do I combine tiles and pre-populated forms? > > > Jay, > > Use the first action mapping, but do it like this: > > <action > path="/ViewSystemProperties" > type="com.nci.action.telco.ViewSystemProperties" > scope="request" > name="SystemProperties" > validate="false"> > <forward name="success" path="telco.system_properties"/> > </action> > > Then in your ViewSystemProperties action do this: > > return mapping.findForward("success"); > > Greg > > Glanville, Jay wrote: > > Hello All. > > > > I'm a nubie and I'm having a little problem. I need to combine an > > action mapping to pre-populate a form, with an action mapping for a > > tile definition. > > > > Let me go into more detail ... > > > > I have an action mapping that gets the information for a form, > > populates the form and then forwards on to the page containing the > > form. The mapping looks like this: > > <action > > path="/ViewSystemProperties" > > type="com.nci.action.telco.ViewSystemProperties" > > scope="request" > > name="SystemProperties" > > parameter="/telco_edit_system_properties" > > validate="false"> > > </action> > > The "name" attribute is a form bean I've defined in the > <form-beans> > > section, which subclasses action form and does all the necessary > > validation of the form. The "type" in the above action is > a subclass > > of Action which goes to the database and gets the appropriate > > information, and then sets the form's properties. The "type" class > > then uses the "parameter" attribute to forward on to our internal > > templating framework that we want to get rid of. > > > > As we want to get rid of our internal templating framework and use > > tiles, I came up with the following action mapping: > > <action > > path="/ViewSystemProperties" > > type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction" > > parameter="telco.system_properties"> > > </action> > > The "parameter" attribute is a tile definition (from > tiles-def.xml). > > The problem with this is that I can't do the necessary work with > > pre-populating the form. > > > > With the first solution, I can pre-populate a form. With > the second > > solution, I can use the tiling framework. Now the big > question: how > > do I combine both solutions so that I can pre-populate my > form and use > > the tiling framework? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > Jay Dickon Glanville > > > > PS: If this email comes through as HTML or RTF, I apologize. I > > BELIEVE I've setup this email for plain text, but I could be wrong. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
