firstly - right list. unfortunately I dont have a direct answer for you,
although do see what you're asking. what might help you though is something
like struts (http://jakarta.apache.org/struts). it handles the sorts of
issues that are (by the sounds of it) at the base of your problem
cheesr
dim
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:10, you wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to this list, and hope this is the appropriate forum. Kick me
> over to a developer forum if not...
>
> I am developing JSPs with JavaBeans and have run into an issue with "blank"
> input fields on the form. An empty string, "", is NOT passed to the setter
> method on my beans. I have researched the source code in
> JspRuntimeLibrary.java and found the introspect (Tomcat 3.1) /
> introspectHelper (Tomcat 3.2.1) method intentionally excludes parameters
> that have a NULL or "" value - of course NULL could never happen because of
> the flow of the code, but never mind that.
>
> I guess my question is this. Is this correct functionality. I have read
> the JSP 1.1 specification on the topic of the setProperty tag, and it is
> NOT specific regarding this matter. It is a huge problem for me because I
> have beans that have a session scope and a particular property of the bean
> may be "Fred" but if I blank out the related input field it doesn't
> overwrite the value in the bean when I submit the form. Hope this makes
> sense.
>
> Any and all help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael W. Housman Jr.
> Optimal Systems Design, Inc.
> Consulting at Wells Fargo Services Company
> Phone: 612.341.9784
> Cell: 612.386.6785
> Office: 763.537.2631
