i'm a Struts newbie. and while playing around with this situation i wasn't seeing my values getting populated in my actionform. i figured it had to do with the way i set up my Struts tags, <html:link>, and their parameters. so in the Struts world, is there a way to submit a form using a hyperlink without using javascript?
i know this comes down to poor design and basic web application functionality. so i apologize that this has been drawn out. thank you all for being patient and helpful.
No problem, Andy. This is easily solved without links and without javascript. And, this comes up so often that I have provided a standard solution in the Struts wiki. The solution is at http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsCatalogMultipleImageButtonsWithNoJavaScript. Notice the title? ///;-)
The solution I actually use is a lot more sophisticated than the one shown on the wiki pages. Mine also generates and caches the buttons as gifs, pnms, pngs, or jpegs or in 14 languages with various fonts, sizes, colors, textures, etc. But your problem, if you have the button, is really easy to solve. You can, for example, have three Operation classes in the fields of your Button class representing the three choices. Then, in your Action class you have:
if([ActionForm].getButton().getFirstChoice().pressed()) {
// do whatever
} else if ([ActionForm].getButton().getSecondChoice().pressed()) {
// do whatever
} else if([ActionForm].getButton().getSecondChoice().pressed()) {
// do whatever
} else {
// throw exceptions galore
}If you have any questions about this, please ask away.
Michael
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