Thanks for the clarification, Joe. The copy of RequestUtils I really studied was from late Dec/early Jan, so I just missed that method. I remember reading the message you linked to and I've been meaning to ask, what did you mean by "prefilling forms with non-request data"? Is it similar to one of the issues I'm trying to solve with the formdef http://www.rabago.net/struts/formdef/ plugin I'm working on?
Hubert --- Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:09 PM -0800 3/12/04, Hubert Rabago wrote: > >As far as I can tell, there really isn't any support for prepopulating a > >DynaActionForm. The ff is from > >http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/building_controller.html#dyna_action_form_classes > > > >"DynaActionForms are not a drop-in replacement for ActionForms. If you > need > >to access ActionForm properties in your Action, you will need to use the > >map-style accessor, like myForm.get("name"). If you actively use the > >ActionForm object in your Action, then you may want to use conventional > >ActionForms instead. > > > >What I did was copy the code that RequestUtils uses to instantiate a > >DynaActionForm, and put it in a method that I can call like this: > >DynaActionForm dynaForm = createDynaActionForm("formName", > >mapping.getModuleConfig()); > > Since 1/24/2004, RequestUtils has exposed a public method that allows > you to get an ActionForm instance using a FormBeanConfig and an > ActionServlet. This is discussed in a bit of detail in > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.struts.user/78441 > > This method does not do any scope searching -- it just makes a new > instance -- but it helps. > > I've been holding off on exposing any more of the form bean pieces > until I got some more feedback. I'm waiting to hear from some other > people who find it as annoying as I do to help elaborate the problem > and the solution (or waiting until it annoys me enough to come up > with a solution on my own...) As noted in the above-referenced > post, we have an internal solution at work that puts us in a pretty > good spot relating to pre-filling forms, so the itch has been > scratched, so to speak. > > Joe > > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them > the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and > nobody thinks of complaining." > -- Jef Raskin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
