RE: getting non-struts form elements

[Avinash Gangadharan]

Matt,
In your action class, you have the request and the response object which
will get you all your form elements

public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
    HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws java.lang.Exception { 
        String xxx = ( String ) request.getParameter("xxx");
        // now do anything with xxx
}

As far as configuring your action in the struts-config, you can associate an
empty form to your action :
<form-beans>
    <form-bean
        name="emptyForm"
        type="org.apache.struts.action.DynaActionForm"/>
</form-beans>

and then add 'name="emptyForm"' in your action mapping:

 <action path="/yourAction"
            type="your.action.type"
            name="emptyForm"
            scope="request"
            >
  <forward
            name="..."
            path="..."/>
  </action>


I hope this is what you are looking for.

Avinash




-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Bathje [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:45 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: getting non-struts form elements


Hi all.

I have a form that is not a struts form bean (no actionform, no dynaform,
nothing...)

Is it possible to have this submit to a struts action, and read the form
elements somehow? I need to be able to read simple (String) elements as well
as multi-part (formfile) elements from the form.

Any way to do it in struts, or do I just need to give up and make something
non-struts to do it?



Thanks,
Matt Bathje


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