> -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew J. Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:51 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Should every Action have an associated form? > > > Hey everyone! > > I hope to not get flamed, but it's getting late here and I'm tired of > looking through the archives. Should every Action have an associated > ActionForm? Is it a bad idea to read a parameter directly from the > request in the Action? I have a page where I need to show > details for a > particular item in our database. People will be directed to > this page > via a url http://127.0.0.1/foo/bar.do?id=123. If I need an > ActonForm, > what's the best way to set this up in the struts-config.xml? > Thoughts?
The short answer, as other have said is of course no. However, it can be easier to deal with a form then grabbing the var from the request itself, depending on your definition of easy, especially with being able to dynamically genereate your forms in the strutsconfig itself. In addition, if you already have a form for showing the full object, you can use it to just get the id. Appfuse does this quite a bit. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
