If the servlet engine does not see any input at the appropriate scope for "sort" or "name", it will grab the values automatically for you from the form-bean initial attribute; otherwise the values on the incoming request (if in the right scope) will be used and the initial values disregarded.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Jen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 2:10 PM Subject: How To Get the 'initial' in the form-property? > In my struts-config.xml, I provided some initial > values: > > <form-bean > name="threadForm" > > type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm"> > <form-property > name="sort" > initial="thread_last_post_date" > type="java.lang.String"/> > <form-property > name="order" > initial="DESC" > type="java.lang.String"/> > </form-bean> > > How do I get the initial value in my servlet that > extends Action? > > I tried: > > form.get( "sort" ); > form.get( "order" ); > > and > > form.getProperty( "sort" ); > form.getProperty( "order" ); > > The compiler complains "cannot resolve symbol: method > get" and "cannot resolve symbol: method getProperty". > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
