RE: PageFlowController's begin method is not always called.

[Punitha_N]

hi john

I have PageA.jsp & PageAController.jpf
          PageB.jsp & PageBController.jpf

STEP 1 :
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In PageA.jsp , i have a anchor like this....
        <netui:anchor href="PageBController.jpf">
                another page flow
        </netui:anchor>

I click this link to go to PageB.jsp . At this time , begin() method of
PageBController.jpf is executed and it works fine.

STEP 2:
------------

In PageB.jsp , i have list box  and a submit button .
Default value of List box is set as follows :::: In the begin() method of
PageBController.jpf , i set the default value for the list box in the
request object.

Now I select a value from the list and click the submit button to go to
PageA.jsp. On click of Submit button, the following action is called

   /**
     * @jpf:action
     * @jpf:forward name="success" path="../PageA/begin.do"
     * @jpf:forward name="noSession" path="../noSession.jsp"
     */
    protected Forward updatePersonValue(UpdatePersonValueForm form)
    {
      // code to manipulate the values
    }
after executing the above action method, PageA.jsp is loaded.

PROBLEM :
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now the pbm is , when i click the link in PageA.jsp to go to PageB.jsp ( for
the second time )  ,  PageB.jsp is loaded without  executing the begin()
method of PageBController.jpf . I want the value ( selected in STEP 2 ) to
be defaulted in the list box ( in PageB.jsp ) ...but now it just displays
the old value . I have written code in begin() method to set the new value
to the request attribute. Since the begin() method is not executed, the old
value shows up in the screen.

I think i didnt confuse u much :( .... please let me know what mistake i
did.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Punitha






-----Original Message-----
From: John Rohrlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:30 AM
To: Beehive Users
Subject: RE: PageFlowController's begin method is not always called.


Punitha,

Not sure what you mean by "go to anther controller".

You can address another Controller by hitting Controller.jpf of the
other page flow (assuming that is the name of the Controller file of the
other page flow).

For example, an anchor on a page of the root page flow with context root
"myPageFlow" would provide access to another page flow like this:

        <netui:anchor href="/myPageFlow/anotherPageFlow/Controller.jpf">
                another page flow
        </netui:anchor>

I hope I understand your question correctly.

- john

-----Original Message-----
From: Punitha_N [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:42 AM
To: user@beehive.apache.org
Subject: PageFlowController's begin method is not always called.

Hi

When i select a jsp page in a controller and go to anther controller ,
the
begin() method of the second controller is not called. The second
controller
just loads the another jsp page.  I want the begin() method of second
controller to be called  before the particular jsp is loaded. Please let
me
know how to resolve this.

Thanks in advance.
Punitha