Eric, The way I did was to add the collection to request in Action bean when the validation of the form failed. The collection was re-initialized as needed.
I have not found any other way in struts yet. Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Fesler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 11:58 AM Subject: Page pre-processing > Hi, > > I'm currently working on an application with several pages having > multiple combo-boxes. > > The content of the combo-boxes is closely related to other components of > the model. Therefore, I use a 'prepare' action to setup the model and > put the combo-box collections in the request scope. > > Unfortunately, this way of working is not compatible with the Struts > validation process. Indeed, when the validation of the form failed, the > request is forwarded back to the input page and the collections are not > initialized. > > A workaround would be to put the collections in the session scope (what > I finally did) but at the end the session becomes full of garbage > information. Another solution is to build the collection within the JSP > page (maybe with custom tags) but this is against the separation of the > view and the model. > > I was wondering if anybody had already thought about an additional > parameter linked to a struts-forward allowing page pre-processing. This > parameter could point to a new kind of model action that will complete > the model with information needed by the view any time the forward is > activated. > > Or... I'm missing something ... > > > How do you handle such a case? > > Thanks, > > --Eric > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
